rclone/docs/content/install.md

title	description	date
Install	Rclone Installation	2016-03-28

Install

Rclone is a Go program and comes as a single binary file.

Quickstart

• Download the relevant binary.
• Unpack and the rclone binary.
• Run rclone config to setup. See rclone config docs for more details.

See below for some expanded Linux / macOS instructions.

See the Usage section of the docs for how to use rclone, or run rclone -h.

Linux installation from precompiled binary

Fetch and unpack

curl -O https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip
unzip rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip
cd rclone-*-linux-amd64

Copy binary file

sudo cp rclone /usr/bin/
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/rclone
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/rclone

Install manpage

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/man/man1
sudo cp rclone.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/
sudo mandb 

Run rclone config to setup. See rclone config docs for more details.

rclone config

macOS installation from precompiled binary

Download the latest version of rclone.

cd && curl -O https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-osx-amd64.zip

Unzip the download and cd to the extracted folder.

unzip -a rclone-current-osx-amd64.zip && cd rclone-*-osx-amd64

Move rclone to your $PATH. You will be prompted for your password.

sudo mv rclone /usr/local/bin/

Remove the leftover files.

cd .. && rm -rf rclone-*-osx-amd64 rclone-current-osx-amd64.zip

Run rclone config to setup. See rclone config docs for more details.

rclone config

Install from source

Make sure you have at least Go 1.5 installed. Make sure your GOPATH is set, then:

go get -u -v github.com/ncw/rclone

and this will build the binary in $GOPATH/bin. If you have built rclone before then you will want to update its dependencies first with this

go get -u -v github.com/ncw/rclone/...

Installation with Ansible

This can be done with Stefan Weichinger's ansible role.

Instructions

1. git clone https://github.com/stefangweichinger/ansible-rclone.git into your local roles-directory
2. add the role to the hosts you want rclone installed to:

    - hosts: rclone-hosts
      roles:
          - rclone

Installation with snap

Quickstart

• install Snapd on your distro using the instructions below
• sudo snap install rclone --classic
• Run rclone config to setup. See rclone config docs for more details.

See below for how to install snapd if it isn't already installed

Arch

sudo pacman -S snapd

enable the snapd systemd service:

sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket

Debian / Ubuntu

sudo apt install snapd

Fedora

sudo dnf copr enable zyga/snapcore
sudo dnf install snapd

enable the snapd systemd service:

sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.service

SELinux support is in beta, so currently:

sudo setenforce 0

to persist, edit /etc/selinux/config to set SELINUX=permissive and reboot.

Gentoo

Install the gentoo-snappy overlay.

OpenEmbedded/Yocto

Install the snap meta layer.

openSUSE

sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/ snappy
sudo zypper install snapd

OpenWrt

Enable the snap-openwrt feed.