[Software] Google Drive. KDE, Dolphin?

New to Debian (Or Linux in general)? Ask your questions here!
Post Reply
Message
Author
User avatar
limotux
Posts: 205
Joined: 2011-05-30 17:38
Has thanked: 49 times
Been thanked: 12 times

[Software] Google Drive. KDE, Dolphin?

#1 Post by limotux »

I remember some time ago I tried to get Google Drive in KDE + Dolphin (KIO-Gdrive) but it didn't really work as expected.

Has it been sorted out?
I wish I can have my local files auto synced with google drive real time and be indexed and searchable by content with Baloo.

How is it now?
Any apps to get google drive as I have with pCloud or DropBox?

Thank you for any guidance.
(I do not want to mess withh my system and install kio-gdrive then it doesn't work, I prefer to keep my system clean and tidy with no junk)
Debian (Testing), KDE, (Defaults), quad core Intel Core i7-8550U
Drives: 238.47 GiB SSD
Memory: 7690.7 MiB
(Installed 24/8/2023) (No Techie)

User avatar
Uptorn
Posts: 341
Joined: 2022-01-22 01:07
Has thanked: 280 times
Been thanked: 92 times

Re: [Software] Google Drive. KDE, Dolphin?

#2 Post by Uptorn »

There have been several versions of kio-gdrive since Bookworm's release. It is possible (likely, IMO) that Google have changed something on their end which breaks this. Unfortunately, I do not see that kio-gdrive has any backports available. You could try building a recent release maybe?

From their documentation:
https://community.kde.org/KIO_GDrive

Hello there, lonely wanderer and welcome to the magical land of Google Drive!
INSTALLATION

Code: Select all

$ git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kio-gdrive.git
$ cd kio-gdrive
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`qtpaths --install-prefix` ..
$ sudo make install
$ kdeinit5 # or just re-login
Now you are ready to use the slave. Either click the "Network" button in Dolphin or run:

Code: Select all

$ kioclient5 exec gdrive:/

Post Reply