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Initialize a Kubo node and interact with the IPFS Network

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Description

The [initialisation section for Kubo](https://docs.ipfs.tech/how-to/command-line-quick-start/#initialize-the-repository) suggests running:

```bash
ipfs cat /ipfs/QmYwAPJzv5CZsnA625s3Xf2nemtYgPpHdWEz79ojWnPbdG/quick-start
```

However this returned

```bash
Error: block was not found locally (offline): ipld: could not find QmYwAPJzv5CZsnA625s3Xf2nemtYgPpHdWEz79ojWnPbdG
```

It was not until I started the `ipfs daemon` that I was able to successfully `cat` the file. The next section then talks about "taking your node online" and running the daemon, it seems the instructions are in the wrong order, or have I done something incorrect?

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