The basis for the next steps has now been laid. Sudo apt-get install gnome-online-accounts Sudo apt-get install gnome-control-centerĤ) Type the following command and give Enter. We start by installing GNOME Control Center and GNOME Online Accounts.Ģ) Type the following command and give Enter.ģ) Type the following command and give Enter. So let’s start with the assumption that you are running Linux Mint 18.3 or lower or Ubuntu 17.10 or lower. But if you are currently running older versions then you must first take some extra steps to install Online Accounts. If you use Linux Mint 19 or higher or Ubuntu 18.04 or higher, it is child’s play to connect Google Drive to your Linux desktop, since everything that is needed is already built into the operating system, namely via the Online Accounts function. How to install and setup Google Drive on Linux Mint We want to be able to access our files on Google Drive through our desktop environment. Of course you can simply go to the online version of Google Drive via your web browser, but that is not what we want to achieve in this article. Unfortunately, Google has so far always failed or was just not interested to develop a desktop client for Linux. You can find your files on any device or computer using Google Drive as they are conveniently synced between your devices via the cloud functionality. This software allows you to back up files from your computer or other devices to the Google Drive cloud.
Google provides a native backup and sync desktop client solution for macOS and Windows.
No native Google desktop client for Linux But Ubuntu users and users of other Ubuntu based distributions will also benefit from this article because of the equal foundation. In this article I explain how to install and setup Google Drive on Linux Mint. So chances are that you are somehow a Google user as well, for example via your Android phone or only via the Google Drive office suite, and if you are also a Linux enthusiast then you most likely want to connect Google Drive to your Linux installation. But the fact is that a large part of the people in this world are satisfied users of the products Google is offering and are therefore willing to give up a bit of their privacy for that. Many of Google’s products are free and of course we also know that free in this case is not really free, but that you as a user pay by giving in a bit of privacy so that the Google advertising logic can adapt to your behavior on the internet. And indeed there are many, many different opinions about this internet services giant. You can say a lot of things about Google.
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