Thursday, December 13, 2012

Insync loves Linux

https://www.insynchq.com/linux

Official repositories

APT

Add Insync as a source

First, add our public GPG key to allow apt to authenticate the Insync repository:

$ wget -O - https://d2t3ff60b2tol4.cloudfront.net/services@insynchq.com.gpg.key \
  | sudo apt-key add -

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add deb http://apt.insynchq.com/[DISTRIBUTION] [CODENAME] non-free
Replace [DISTRIBUTION] with your Linux distro: ubuntu, debian, mint
Replace [CODENAME] with your Linux distro codename: for example Ubuntu 12.04 is precise
Update the apt repository:
```
$ sudo apt-get update
```

Generic installer (use this if you're not using GNOME Shell, Cinnamon, or KDE 4) $ sudo apt-get install insync-beta-ubuntu
GNOME Shell $ sudo apt-get install insync-beta-gnome
Cinnamon $ sudo apt-get install insync-beta-cinnamon
KDE 4 $ sudo apt-get install insync-beta-kde
The APT repository officially supports Debian, Mint, and Ubuntu only.
For other Debian-based distributions, try using the one for Debian Squeeze.

Yum

First, import the public GPG key used to sign the RPMs. $ sudo rpm --import https://d2t3ff60b2tol4.cloudfront.net/repomd.xml.key

Create a new file insync.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ with the following content.

[insync]
name=insync repo
baseurl=http://yum.insynchq.com/fedora/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://d2t3ff60b2tol4.cloudfront.net/repomd.xml.key
enabled=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
metadata_expire=60m

GNOME Shell $ sudo yum groupinstall insync-beta-gnome
Cinnamon $ sudo yum groupinstall insync-beta-cinnamon
KDE 4 $ sudo yum install insync-beta-kde

Direct download

For GNOME Shell and Cinnamon, Insync is split into two packages.
Install gnome-cinnamon-common and then choose the JavaScript applet that matches your desktop.

Generic installer

64-bit deb, 32-bit deb

GNOME Shell and Cinnamon common

64-bit deb, 32-bit deb
64-bit rpm, 32-bit rpm

KDE 4

64-bit deb, 32-bit deb
64-bit rpm, 32-bit rpm

openSUSE and GNOME Shell

64-bit, 32-bit, GNOME Shell applet

Cinnamon JavaScript applet

deb, rpm

GNOME Shell JavaScript applet

deb, rpm

KDE 4 optional plasmoids (Installing Plasmoids)

insync.plasmoid, gdrive_webview.plasmoid

Others

AUR package for Arch Linux (with thanks to xzy3186)

HOW TO: Access Google Drive for Ubuntu ?

http://www.dailytut.com/linux/google-drive-ubuntu.html

Google Drive the cloud storage by Google released today and it is available only for PC, Mac and Android smartphones. iPhone and iPad versions are yet to be released but there is no information about Google Drive for Linux. We still can access Google Drive in Ubuntu by following few steps in Nautilus. We will use Google Docs Fs PPA project by Luca Invernizzi, which is actually meant for Google Docs to connect to our Google Drive free cloud storage space. This method originally posted at OMGUbuntu and gives a temporary method to access Google Drive in Ubuntu OS until, Google releases the official Linux version.

When you use Google Drive unofficially in your Linux system, this really contains so many limitations. You can just access your GDrive storage and store files, but the auto sync feature will not work like few other features of it. We will be updating this article once the full working method released for Linux machines. The following steps are followed in Ubuntu 11.10.

Google Drive for Ubuntu

Step 1: Download all the packages that you can find here by Luca Invernizzi and proceed to second step.

Step 2: Add the following package

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:invernizzi/google-docs-fs
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-docs-fs

Step 3: Once the installation completed, logout and login again to your Ubuntu Desktop.

Step 4: Now open “Nautilus” and Create a New Folder in your “Home” folder as “Drive”.

Step 5: Access “Terminal” and type the following command

gmount Drive username@gmail.com

(replace the username with your google account detail to access your Google Drive)

Step 6: You must see a prompt for Password, and give your google account password to complete the steps and you must be seeing the Google Drive with your Free Cloud Storage now mounted as a Virtual Drive.

As it is mentioned, this is a temporary solution to access and store your docs, pictures and files on Google Drive. We must wait for the official release of Google Drive for Linux by Google. The disappointing part is, google has mentioned nowhere about the status of Google Drive for Linux in their webpage.

Thanks for reading and please do share this post with your friends in Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Ubuntu utility

How to switch to Console mode from GUI mode in GNOME

If you want to switch to Console mode from GUI mode in GNOME follow this simple steps

To switch to Console mode

Press ‘Ctrl + Alt + F1′ (F2 -- F6)

To switch between consoles in Console mode

Press ‘Alt + F1′ (F2 -- F6)

To switch back to GNOME GUI mode

Press ‘Alt + F7′

VN