Once installed, you’ll need to get your specific “client_secrets.json” and the steps are elaborated in pdf attached to the link below. Install in CentOS $ yum install -y python2.7 Installing GoSync and the remaining dependencies $ sudo pip install GoSync You can basically “sudo apt” your way through via the terminal for the first three dependencies while the rest will be installed alongside GoSync via pip – all of which should be available in your standard repo. Installation instructions are only provided for Ubuntu and derivatives and CentOS other distributions will have to clone the repoor downloadthe zip archive. GoSync is quite as easy as you might have imagined given that it solely depends on Python and a few others as listed below with the hardest being getting your “client_secrets.json” file. GoSync is singularly developed by Himanshu Chauhan and he has closely worked with me in writing this article. The application is pretty much still in beta and with the most recent release at version 0.4. GoSync is a rather new GUI-enabled Google Drive client for Linux written in Python and released under the GNU General Public License 2. While there are a number of other free options like Google-drive-ocamlfuse, Reclone and Drive, they sadly still have their shortcomings. Insync which is a paid software has managed to close this gap by providing a much more user-friendly software that works right out of the box but comes at a rather hefty price of $25 which is its biggest giveaway. The options available are however somewhat cumbersome and incomplete (if i was to put it that) and mostly have a steep learning curve. This, however, hasn’t stopped the Linux community from creating both open source and proprietary softwares that would allow you access Google Drive from your Linux system. It is no longer a thing of news that Google is yet to release an official drive client for Linux as they’ve done with competing platforms.
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