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 (and later)
  • Desktop environments: GNOME or KDE
• The application may possibly work on other Linux distributions or with other desktop environments; however, Infomaniak provides no support for the installation or execution of the application outside of the configurations mentioned above.

Installing kDrive on Linux

Prerequisites

• Download the desktop app kDrive for Linux (.AppImage file type)
• Fuse2 (required to run a appimage):
  • Since version 23.04 (and later) of Ubuntu, after double-clicking on the AppImage file, nothing will happen.
  • The latest versions of Ubuntu indeed use a "too" recent version of FUSE (the "Filesystem in User Space" interface on which AppImages rely to function) for which AppImages are not designed.
  • AppImages need 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:

1. Place the file in a folder named for example "Applications".
2. Right-click on the file and choose Permissions.
3. Check the box "Allow the file to be executed as a program"

With Ubuntu, to ensure that kDrive runs at startup, add the file in “Startup Application Preferences”

With Gnome, if the icon is missing, install AppIndicator.