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I shall clarify a bit:

• The main component of an IPFS node is Kubo (formerly go-ipfs)
• there is a Web UI that connects to kubo's "admin" API
• the Desktop app packages both into an electron app to easily install locally
• kubo can also run on a server (like cloudron - which I'm working on)
• the Web UI can access it via freshly added Auth
• you can also install a local node AND one on cloudron - and peer them
  • "pinning" data on the cloudron node to have it available from e.g. your laptop if your desktop is offline
  • your local node acts as a local-first "cache", and if you have accessed the data you need once, you're fully local-first without needing the cloudron node
  • (or if the cloudron node is offline, but the data is stored on any other server on the IPFS network)

Hi there @marcusquinn

I'm working on packaging a ready-to-roll IPFS node with:

• kubo (which was requested in this wishlist ... by you )
• a ucan proxy to enable an authenticated upload API

See this ipfs forum post for the origin story

I have successfully packaged it & deployed it to our cloudron, with a few open questions left (like configuration), and when it's ready I would submit it to the cloudron app store - but I would love to be able to give users an option to install it without needing to clone the repo and running CLI

Am I reading this topic right that there is currently no way to install an app from a git repo apart from either:

• submitting to official app store
• using CLI
  ?

Would love to make our app available to install in an easy way, but not ready for app store publication (yet)