rclone is a command-line program used for management and synchronization of files with cloud storage services. It supports various cloud storage providers including Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, and many others. In this tutorial, we will install rclone on OpenBSD.
Before installing rclone, we need to install dependencies for it. OpenBSD provides a package manager named pkg_add that we can use to install dependencies. To install the required dependencies, run the following command:
sudo pkg_add go
This command will install Go programming language on your OpenBSD system. rclone is written in Go, so it requires this package to run.
To download and install rclone, follow the given steps:
Visit the official rclone's download page at https://rclone.org/downloads/
Scroll down until you see "OpenBSD" on the list and find the appropriate link to download the package. Click on the link to download the latest version of rclone.
After downloading the package, extract the files from the archive using the following command:
tar -xf rclone-current-openbsd-amd64.zip
The above command will extract the files from the archive. Move to the extracted directory by running the following command:
cd rclone-*-openbsd-amd64
Now copy the binary file to the /usr/local/bin directory to make it executable:
sudo cp rclone /usr/local/bin/
Finally, verify that rclone has been installed successfully by running the following command:
rclone version
This command should display the version number of rclone installed on your system.
Congratulations! You have installed rclone on OpenBSD.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install rclone on OpenBSD. rclone is an excellent tool for managing and synchronizing files with cloud storage services. With rclone, you can easily copy or sync files between different cloud services and your local system.
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