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January 10, 2019

Installing Google Drive on Linux

Google Drive is really useful I use it for the central location of this blog infact!

Installation guide

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install google-drive-ocamlfuse

You need to ensure the directory you want to use exists, you can then mount google drive to any folder.

google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/Google_Drive

Automounting the Google Drive

Add

mount | grep "${HOME}/Google_Drive" >/dev/null || /usr/bin/google-drive-ocamlfuse "${HOME}/Google_Drive" to ~/.profile

Restart your file explorer and there will be a mounted device Google_Drive

Thanks for reading!

John Wiseman

Full-Stack Software Engineer building scalable digital solutions. specializing in modern web technologies and mission-critical systems.

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