How To Install rclone-browser on CentOS 8

rclone-browser is Simple cross platform GUI for rclone

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rclone-browser on CentOS 8.

What is rclone-browser

Simple cross platfrom GUI for rclone command line tool. Features - Allows to browse and modify any rclone remote, including encrypted ones - Uses same configuration file as rclone, no extra configuration required - Supports custom location and encryption for .rclone.conf configuration file - Simultaneously navigate multiple repositories in separate tabs - Lists files hierarchically with file name, size and modify date - All rclone commands are executed asynchronously, no freezing GUI - File hierarchy is lazily cached in memory, for faster traversal of folders - Allows to upload, download, create new folders, rename or delete files and folders - Allows to calculate size of folder, export list of files and copy rclone command to clipboard - Can process multiple upload or download jobs in background - Drag & drop support for dragging files from local file explorer for uploading - Streaming media files for playback in player like mpv or similar - Mount and unmount folders on macOS and GNU/Linux - Optionally minimizes to tray, with notifications when upload/download finishes - Supports portable mode (create .ini file next to executable with same name), rclone and .rclone.conf path now can be relative to executable

We can use yum or dnf to install rclone-browser on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rclone-browser.

Install rclone-browser on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install rclone-browser

Install rclone-browser on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install rclone-browser using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rclone-browser

How To Uninstall rclone-browser on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the rclone-browser package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rclone-browser

rclone-browser Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/rclone-browser
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c/5fae59af10b8256690cd19927b35a5ae0a5f9a
/usr/share/applications/rclone-browser.desktop
/usr/share/doc/rclone-browser
/usr/share/doc/rclone-browser/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/rclone-browser/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/rclone-browser.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/rclone-browser.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/rclone-browser.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/rclone-browser.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/rclone-browser.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/rclone-browser.svg
/usr/share/licenses/rclone-browser
/usr/share/licenses/rclone-browser/LICENSE
/usr/share/metainfo/rclone-browser.appdata.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rclone-browser on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.