Syncthing is an open-source software used for file syncing and sharing between devices. Fedora CoreOS is a lightweight operating system that runs containers efficiently. By installing Syncthing on Fedora CoreOS, you can easily keep your files in sync between different devices.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Syncthing on Fedora CoreOS Latest.
Before installing Syncthing, you need to fulfill the following prerequisites:
First, it's essential to update your system packages to the latest version. To do that, run the following command:
sudo rpm-ostree update
This command updates all the system packages.
Fedora provides an RPM repository to install Syncthing on Fedora CoreOS. To install Syncthing using the RPM repository, follow these steps:
Download the GPG key for the RPM repository:
sudo rpm --import https://syncthing.net/release-key.txt
Add the Syncthing RPM repository:
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/syncthing.repo << EOF
[syncthing]
name=syncthing
baseurl=https://dl.syncthing.net/rpm/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://syncthing.net/release-key.txt
EOF
Install the Syncthing package:
sudo dnf install syncthing
After installation, start the Syncthing service and enable it to start automatically at boot time. To do that, run the following commands:
sudo systemctl start syncthing.service
sudo systemctl enable syncthing.service
By default, Syncthing listens on port 8384 on localhost. To access the Syncthing web interface, open your web browser, and navigate to the following URL:
http://localhost:8384
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Syncthing on Fedora CoreOS Latest. Syncthing is an excellent application for syncing and sharing files between different devices. By following these simple steps, you can easily install and use Syncthing on your Fedora CoreOS machine.
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