Grive: client for Google Drive available in Ubuntu

The big surprise when meeting the brand new storage service provided by Google it was the absence of a client for Linux. Faced with the community's claim, the folks at Google promised that they would launch this client in the coming months; however, as expected, the open source community has already built its own alternative: Thrush, a client for Google Drive written in C ++.

Installation

In Ubuntu, I opened a terminal and wrote:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: nilarimogard / webupd8 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install grive

This will install the corresponding PPA and install grive.

The rest of the mortals can download Grive and compile it.

Use

1. In order to use Grive and synchronize a folder with your Google Drive disk, create a folder in your HOME called "grive" (without quotes). To do this run:

mkdir -p ~ / grive

2. Next, navigate to the newly created folder:

cd ~ / grive

3. The first time you run Grive, you have to use the "-a" option to grant permission to access your Google Drive:

grive-a

4. After running the above command, a URL will be displayed in the terminal. Copy this URL and paste it into your web browser. On the loaded page, it will ask you to give Grive permission to access your Google Drive disk. After clicking on "Allow access" an authentication code will appear that you have to copy and paste in the terminal from where you launched Grive.

That's it. Every time you want to synchronize Google Drive with your local "grive" folder, navigate to the "grive" folder (step 2) and run "grive" (this time without "-a" because you have already granted the necessary permissions).

Source: WebUpd8