13+ Best Google Drive Clients For Linux Distros

Google Drive is one of the most popular cloud-based file storage services. You can use Google Drive to store and access files and folders from anywhere. You can also share and collaborate your files or folders with others. Google Drive provides 15 GB of free space per user.

Google Drive is available for:

• Windows
• OS X
• iOS
• Chrome OS
• Android devices

Best Google Drive Clients For Linux Distros

• GoSync
• Grive2
• Insync
• overGrive
• CloudCross
• Rclone
• Drive
• ExpanDrive
• Gdrive
• Gnome online accounts
• Tuxdrive
• ExpanDrive
• Google-drive-ocamlfuse
• Odrive
• Vgrive

How To Install GoSync On Linux-Based Operating Systems?

GoSync is easy to use that is based on Python programming language. GoSync supports AES encryption for file transferring. It synchronizes all your files between your local drive and your Google Drive except for Google DocumentsGoSync is available for installation via pip. Run the following command to install GoSync via pip along with all required dependencies. Make sure you have installed Python in your operating system.

How To Install Python On Linux

pip install GoSync

How To Install Insync On Linux

Run the following command to install Insync on Linux-based operating systems.

Add public GPG key to allow apt to authenticate the Insync repository

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys ACCAF35C

Create a file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/insync.list with the following information:

deb http://apt.insync.io/[DISTRIBUTION] [CODENAME] non-free contrib

Replace [DISTRIBUTION] with your Linux distro: ubuntu, debian, <mint
Replace [CODENAME] with your Linux distro codename.

Update the apt repository of your distro.

sudo apt-get update

Now run the following command to install Insync

sudo apt-get install insync

Run the following command to install insync on RedHat/Fedora/CentOS based operating system using the YUM command.

Import the public GPG key

sudo rpm --import https://d2t3ff60b2tol4.cloudfront.net/repomd.xml.key

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

[insync]
name=insync repo
baseurl=http://yum.insync.io/[DISTRIBUTION]/$releasever/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://d2t3ff60b2tol4.cloudfront.net/repomd.xml.key
enabled=1
metadata_expire=120m

Replace [DISTRIBUTION] with fedora, opensuse-leap, or <opensuse-tumbleweed.

Install Insync

sudo yum install insync

How To Install Rclone On Linux?

Run the following command to install Rclone on Linux based operating system

sudo -v ; curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash