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Install kDrive on Linux
This guide details the installation of the desktop app kDrive Infomaniak on a computer with a Linux operating system. It will then allow you to synchronize your files with kDrive.
Preamble
- On this OS, some kDrive features are not available, such as the Lite Sync option or the right-click context menu.
- The kDrive app is officially supported by Infomaniak only on the following systems:
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Desktop environments: GNOME or KDE
- The application may work on other Linux distributions or with other desktop environments; however, Infomaniak provides no support for installing or running the application outside of the configurations mentioned above.
Installation of kDrive on Linux
Prerequisites
- Download the desktop app kDrive for Linux (file of type .AppImage)
- Fuse2 (required to run an appimage):
- Since version 23.04 (and later) of Ubuntu, after double-clicking on the AppImage file, nothing will happen.
- The latest versions of Ubuntu use a "too" recent version of FUSE (the "Filesystem in User Space" interface on which AppImages rely to work) for which AppImages are not designed.
- AppImages require FUSE v2 to work:
sudo apt install libfuse2
- D-Bus
- Gnome-keyring or kwallet (in principle already present on your machine except with some light distributions)
Then:
- Place the file in a folder named for example "Applications".
- Right-click on the file and choose Permissions.
- Check the box "Allow executing file as a program."
- Optional for Ubuntu: add the file in "Application Startup Preferences" so that kDrive runs on startup.
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