Install Scuttlebot

From NPM

NPM hosts the stable release. It will be the least likely to have bugs.

Dependencies:

node v4 and greater (you might like to use nvm)
node-gyp (npm install -g node-gyp)

Linux Dependencies Installation may fail when building the libsodium dependencies due to missing aclocal. On Ubuntu you will need to run:

sudo apt-get install autotools-dev automake

Install:

npm install ssb-server -g

Run:

Start scuttlebutt server.

ssb-server start

Then, in another session, use the cli tool to access the API:

ssb-server whoami
ssb-server publish --type post --text "Hello, world"
ssb-server log

You can get help with -h.

From Git

GitHub hosts the development version. It will contain updates not yet published on NPM.

Dependencies:

node v4 and greater (you might like to use nvm)
node-gyp (npm install -g node-gyp)

Linux Dependencies Installation may fail when building the libsodium dependencies due to missing aclocal. On Ubuntu you will need to run:

sudo apt-get install autotools-dev automake

Install:

git clone https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-server.git
cd scuttlebot
npm install

Run:

From directory you cloned scuttlebot to:

./bin.js server

Then, in another session, use the cli tool to access the API:

./bin.js whoami
./bin.js publish --type post --text "Hello, world"
./bin.js log

You can get help with -h.

Update:

From directory you cloned scuttlebot to:

git pull origin master
npm install