Help with downloading IPFS command line for Windows

[ChristianG77]

Hi all,

I was looking for some help downloading IPFS command line for Windows.

Following the instructions for Windows on https://docs.ipfs.io/install/command-line/#official-distributions:

Instructions 1 to 3 look alright as I get the following output:

PS C:\Users\user> C:\Users\user\Dropbox\00_CODE\00_APPS\00_IPFS\go-ipfs_v0.10.0.\ipfs.exe --version
ipfs version 0.10.0

Instructions 4 and 5, I access, copy, paste, and save the below at the bottom of the profile.ps1 file.

Path

C:\Users\user\Dropbox\00_CODE\00_APPS\00_IPFS\go-ipfs_v0.10.0

Instruction 6, I close, reopen, as well as restarted my laptop, however receive the following output when checking if the version is installed.

PS C:\Users\user\Dropbox\00_CODE\NFT-DEMO> cd ~
PS C:\Users\user> ipfs --version
ipfs : The term 'ipfs' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and
try again.
At line:1 char:1

• ipfs --version

•   + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (ipfs:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
  
  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[cromewar]

Sometimes when you are modifying powershell profiles you must use double \\ for the paths, however there is a much easier way to solve this:

As you see I also installed it using the commands, so in order to add it to your PATH, use pwd to know the exact location and then add it to your PATH manually on Windows advanced configuration like this:

Now as you can see ipfs works just fine (after re start the terminal):

If you don't know how to manually add environment variables to your path, here is a step by step guide:
https://www.architectryan.com/2018/08/31/how-to-change-environment-variables-on-windows-10/

[cromewar]

Finally I highly recommend to use wsl2 (windows subsystem for linux) for blockchain development in general, it would make your life easier ;)

[ChristianG77]

Great work @cromewar that worked perfectly!

Thanks so much for your help, that was awesome, I was stuck on that for about a day haha!

[cromewar]

I'm glad it worked :)

[PatrickAlphaC]

boom!