VGrive

Flatpak repo: https://github.com/flathub/com.github.bcedu.vgrive

VGrive is a client (back-end and front-end) for Google Drive made in vala.

• Start VGrive and sync your files with Google Drive through a clean and minimalist gui.
• Automaticlly detects changes in local and remote files and sync them.
• Choose the local path where VGrive syncs your files.

Installation

Elementary AppCenter

Install VGrive through the elementary AppCenter. It's always updated to lastest version. Easy and fast.

Debian and Derivatives: Install from .deb file

For debian based distributions (ubuntu, linux mint, elementary, ...) you can install VGrive directlly with the .deb file attached to the newest release of VGrive:

• https://github.com/bcedu/VGrive/releases

Fedora: Install from official repo

• https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/vgrive

• sudo dnf install vgrive

Flatpak

Install from flathub (aviable for any distro):

• https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.bcedu.vgrive

Setup flatpak: https://flatpak.org/setup/

Manual Instalation

Download last release (zip file), extract files and enter to the folder where they where extracted.

Install the 'build' pre-requisites ( eg on ubuntu, something like this ):

• sudo apt install meson
• sudo apt install valac
• sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk-3-dev
• sudo apt install libgranite*
• sudo apt install libjson-glib*
• sudo apt install libsoup*
• sudo apt install libunity-dev (optional)
• sudo apt install libappindicator3-dev (optional)

Install your application with the following commands:

• meson build --prefix=/usr
• cd build
• ninja
• sudo ninja install

DO NOT DELETE FILES AFTER MANUAL INSTALLATION, THEY ARE NEEDED DURING UNINSTALL PROCESS

To uninstall type from de build folder:

• sudo ninja uninstall