How To Install rclone-browser on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rclone-browser on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
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 Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
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 Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the rclone-browser package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rclone-browser
rclone-browser Package Contents on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.