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Insync solves Google Drive for the Linux Desktop

July 27th, 2012 | 4 Comments

Insync announced late last night that their desktop application is now available for Linux users. This means you can have dropbox-like functionality on your Google Drive! It is in beta, but most users that have installed it already are raving about it so far. A user friendly operating system will help you navigate easily through your computer.

So far it has been tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and LinuxMint 13. I’m using Fedora 17 and while it seemed to install, I received some errors when I went to run the desktop version. I’ll admit I haven’t looked into why it didn’t work yet, but i’ll post my findings on here if I come up with a fix. They did mention that future versions will include support for older versions and other Linux flavors.

There is also a headless app which runs on any modern Linux and removes the tray app, badging and context menu – and a client-side API that allows scripting and setting of custom file metadata. I’m going to be trying those once I finish writing this post. ;)

It currently uses the Nautilus file manager – much like Dropbox.

Below is a video they posted showing it in action:

Find out more at their site: Insync for Linux and Gmail

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4 Responses to "Insync solves Google Drive for the Linux Desktop"

  1. Rob says:
    July 27, 2012 at 8:45 am

    By the way.. here’s the issue I come up with on F17:

    [rob@station-222 ~]$ insync
<module 'isyncd' from '/usr/lib/insync/isyncd/__init__.pyc'>
<module 'isyncd.clientdb' from '/usr/lib/insync/isyncd/clientdb.pyc'>
/usr/lib/insync/isyncd/requester.py:1: UserWarning: libevent version mismatch: system version is '2.0.18-stable' but this gevent is compiled against '2.0.14-stable'
<module 'isyncd.client' from '/usr/lib/insync/isyncd/client.pyc'>
<module 'isyncd.clientenv' from '/usr/lib/insync/isyncd/clientenv.pyc'>
/usr/lib/insync
C functions loaded: 0
C functions failed: 4234
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "insync.py", line 25, in <module>
  File "../py/isyncd/linux/fsimpl.py", line 3, in <module>
  File "py/isyncd/linux/fswatch.py", line 6, in <module>
  File "py/isyncd/linux/platform_impl.py", line 9, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'g_type_init'
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  2. Rob says:
    July 27, 2012 at 10:18 pm

    BTW, worked like a champ on my laptop running Mint 13. :)

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  3. michael belisle says:
    August 6, 2012 at 5:33 am

    doesn’t work in sabayon

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  4. Ambert says:
    September 10, 2012 at 10:48 pm

    I’ve installed it on Fedora 17 KDE spin and it’s working like a charm

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