How To Install grive2 on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install grive2 in Fedora 36. grive2 is Google Drive client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install grive2 on Fedora 36.

What is grive2

The purpose of this project is to provide an independent open source implementation of Google Drive client for GNU/Linux. It uses Google Drive REST API to talk to Google Drive service.

We can use yum or dnf to install grive2 on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install grive2.

Install grive2 on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install grive2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install grive2

Install grive2 on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install grive2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install grive2

How To Uninstall grive2 on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the grive2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove grive2

grive2 Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/grive
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e/29be3d24039299b74e52e627b758aceff6fb36
/usr/lib/systemd/user/[email protected]
/usr/lib/systemd/user/[email protected]
/usr/lib/systemd/user/[email protected]
/usr/lib64/grive2
/usr/lib64/grive2/grive-sync.sh
/usr/share/doc/grive2
/usr/share/doc/grive2/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/grive2
/usr/share/licenses/grive2/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/grive.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install grive2 on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).