How To Install grive2 on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grive2 on Fedora 34.
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 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install grive2.
Install grive2 on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install grive2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install grive2
Install grive2 on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 34
To uninstall only the grive2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove grive2
grive2 Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/grive
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/947623b466221b0195016aa429fd5d956b4167
/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 34 using yum and dnf.
