Tox Bootstrap Node on Debian 11

These steps have been tested on Debian 11

References:

• https://wiki.tox.chat/users/runningnodes
• https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/tree/master/other/bootstrap_daemon

Install Dependencies:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install git libnacl-dev libc6-dev cmake libconfig-dev libsodium-dev

Clone latest Git repo & submodules:

• GitHub: TokTok/c-toxcore

git clone https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore.git
cd c-toxcore
git submodule update --init

Compile libtoxcore and tox-bootstrapd:

From the c-toxcore directory (you might be in it from the previous step):

mkdir _build
cd _build
cmake ..
make
make install

Did it Compile OK?

Make sure the output text from make is all green and tox-bootstrapd was built:

[100%] Linking C executable tox-bootstrapd
[100%] Built target tox-bootstrapd