The twister P2P Book

Binaries

Some pre-compiled binaries available at the Releases page

Build from source

Debian / Ubuntu

Install required dependencies:

sudo apt install build-essential libboost-all-dev libssl-dev

Log in as root and ensure you are in the /root directory, then follow steps:

1. git clone https://github.com/twisterarmy/twister-seeder.git
2. cd twister-seeder
3. make

Compiled dnsseed binary will be placed in the current twister-seeder build directory (see also Storage location)

Upgrade from repository

Steps to upgrade your existing twister-seeder from the repository sources:

1. stop existing dnsseed process to continue (if active, run pgrep dnsseed to find)
   • sudo systemctl stop dnsseed - if you're using systemd service
2. cd twister-seeder - navigate twister-seeder sources directory (which contains old dnsseed binary)
3. git pull - grab latest updates
4. make - build new version
5. start dnsseed process
   • sudo systemctl start dnsseed - if you're using systemd service