Rclone: Difference between revisions

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Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from a large variety of cloud providers, including Google Drive, Backblaze, and Amazon S3.

Note: The current version of rclone i.e v1.68.2 in Alpine Linux v3.21 does not support S390x and LoongArch64

Installation

To install rclone package, issue the command.

# apk add rclone

Configuration

To configure rclone, use the rclone config command, following the prompts for your platform of choice:

$ rclone config

RcloneBrowser, a GUI for rclone is available in testing repository with the package name rclone-browser.

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-[https://rclone.org/ rclone] is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from a large variety of cloud providers, including Google Drive, Backblaze, and Amazon S4.
+[https://rclone.org/ Rclone] is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from a large variety of cloud providers, including Google Drive, Backblaze, and Amazon S3.
-= Installation =
+{{Note|The current version of rclone i.e v1.68.2 in Alpine Linux v3.21 does not support [[:Category:S390x|S390x]] and [[:Category:LoongArch64|LoongArch64]]}}
-There is currently no candidate for installation in Alpine, but rclone is written in GO and comes as a single binary file that is easy to manually download and install.{{ref|a}}
+== Installation ==
-{{note|a}}There is currently a script which auto-detects your appropriate binary and installs the latest version, but without modification it doesn't currently work on Alpine.
+To install {{pkg|rclone}} package, issue the command.{{cmd|# apk add {{pkg|rclone}}}}
-Download appropriate installation candidate, unzip, and enter into the directory:
+== Configuration ==
-<pre>curl -O https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip
+To configure rclone, use the rclone config command, following the prompts for your platform of choice:{{cmd|$ rclone config}}
-unzip rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip
-cd rclone-*-linux-amd64
-</pre>
-Move the binary to /usr/bin and give it appropriate ownership and permissions:
+RcloneBrowser, a GUI for rclone is available in [[Repositories#Testing|testing]] repository with the package name {{pkg|rclone-browser}}.
-<pre>
+== See Also ==
-sudo cp rclone /usr/bin/
-sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/rclone
-sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/rclone
-</pre>
-Install manpages:
+*[https://rclone.org/docs/ Rclone official website]
+*[https://kapitainsky.github.io/RcloneBrowser/ RcloneBrowser official website]
-<pre>
-sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/man/man1
-sudo cp rclone.1 /usr/share/man/man1/
-sudo makewhatis /usr/share/man
-</pre>
-= Usage =
-To configure rclone, use the rclone config command, following the prompts for your platform of choice:
-{{cmd| rclone config}}
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