Installation guide for Clear Linux

#1

This is what I had to do to make Insync work in Clear Linux.

  1. Download rpm (Fedora, latest version)

  2. Extract rpm and install all files to /usr/local (to avoid conflicts with swupd, Clear Linux’s stateless package manager)

    cd usr/
    cp bin/insync /usr/local/bin/
    cp -r lib/insync /usr/local/lib64/
    cp -r share/* /usr/local/share/
    cp -r share/mime/packages/insync-helper.xml /usr/local/share/mime/packages/

  3. Edit /usr/local/bin/insync to append “–ca-path /etc/ssl/certs/” to the exec params, as this is the correct path for Clear Linux.
    The file should read LC_TIME=C exec ./insync "$@" --ca-path /etc/ssl/certs/

  4. Rename and backup the libX11.so shared library provided the rpm as it conflicts with Clear Linux. This will force Insync to use libX11 provided by Clear Linux.
    mv /usr/local/lib64/insync/libX11.so.6 /usr/local/lib64/insync/libX11.so.6.bak

  5. It works perfectly.

#2

Thank you so much for this guide, @insilications!! :slight_smile: I will include this in our Linux Installation Guide for non-supported distros, but I have also brought this up with our team following your request on the other thread. :slight_smile:

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#3

Thanks for the support @mia. The solution I provided is being used by others users in the https://clearlinux.org forum as well.

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#4

Hi
I did all the above commands and steps how do I run InSync?
This is the directory of the files I extracted
/usr/local/InSync/bin
/usr/local/InSync/lib
/usr/local/InSync/share
I copied the folders as they are in the .rpm installation file
Thanks

#5

Hi, if you’re done installing Insync, could you do insync start and see if it launches on your systray?

#6

Hi Mia,

It returned command not found

command_not_found

#7

Hi @pika

The destination directories are incorrect (/usr/local/InSync/)

  • The usr/bin/insync file from our package should be copied to /usr/local/bin/
  • All files in usr/lib/insync/ from our package should be copied to /usr/local/lib64/
  • All files in usr/share/ from our package should be copied to /usr/local/share/
  • The usr/share/mime/packages/insync-helper.xml from our package should be copied to /usr/local/share/mime/packages/
#8

@pika

You can try to install using my cmake package. It downloads the latest version of insync and installs it properly in order to run it under Clear Linux: https://github.com/insilications/insync-clr

Download the latest installer (https://github.com/insilications/insync-clr/archive/local-install.zip):

unzip -q insync-clr-local-install.zip
cd insync-clr-local-install/
mkdir build
cd build/
cmake CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local ..
make
make install