How To Install vgrive on Fedora 34

vgrive is Google Drive client for Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vgrive on Fedora 34.

What is `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.

We can use yum or dnf to install vgrive on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vgrive.

Install vgrive 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 vgrive using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vgrive

Install vgrive 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 vgrive using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vgrive

How To Uninstall vgrive on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove vgrive

vgrive Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/com.github.bcedu.vgrive
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/4a05261d08372c2485a41729da8d56acea2b2b
/usr/share/applications/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.desktop
/usr/share/doc/vgrive
/usr/share/doc/vgrive/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/vgrive/README.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.svg
/usr/share/licenses/vgrive
/usr/share/licenses/vgrive/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_br/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/com.github.bcedu.vgrive.appdata.xml

References

vgrive website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vgrive on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.