Step-by-step – Rclone Browser Linux Mint 19 Installation

GNU/Linux Mint 19 Installing Rclone Browser – QuickStart Guide

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Rclone Browser in Mint 19.x Tara/Tessa/Tina/Tricia LTS GNU/Linux Desktop.

And Rclone Browser for Linux Mint 19 is a Simple and Open Source GUI for Rclone Command Line Tool.

Especially relevant is how Rclone Browser is supporting All the major Computing Platforms: GNU/Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows.

The Rclone Browser Features list:

• Allows to browse and modify any rclone remote, including encrypted ones
• Uses same configuration file as rclone, no extra configuration required
• Supports custom location and encryption for rclone.conf configuration file
• Simultaneously navigate multiple repositories in separate tabs
• Lists files hierarchically with file name, size and modify date
• All rclone commands are executed asynchronously, no freezing GUI
• File hierarchy is lazily cached in memory, for faster traversal of folders
• Allows to upload, download, create new folders, rename or delete files and folders
• Allows calculating size of folder, export list of files and copy rclone command to clipboard
• Can process multiple upload or download jobs in background
• Drag & drop support for dragging files from local file explorer for uploading
• Streaming media files for playback in player like vlc or similar
• Mount and unmount folders on macOS, GNU/Linux and Windows (for Windows requires winfsp and for mac fuse for macOS)
• Optionally minimizes to tray, with notifications when upload/download finishes
• Supports portable mode (create .ini file next to executable with same name), rclone and rclone.conf path now can be relative to executable
• Supports drive-shared-with-me (Google Drive specific)
• For remotes supporting public link sharing has an option (right-click menu) to fetch it
• Supports tasks. Created jobs can be saved and run or edited later.
• Configurable dark mode for all systems

Finally, this guide includes detailed instructions about to Getting-Started with Rclone Browser on Mint.

1. 1. Launching Shell Emulator

   Open a Terminal window
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands).

   
   In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.
   

2. 2. Installing AppImageLauncher

   How to Install AppImageLauncher in Mint

   AppImageLauncher Mint Setup Guide

   The AppImage may Not Verified so to Run it Securely in a Sandbox see: Firejail Setup.

   AppImageLauncher Mint Installation Tutorial
   The Setup grant the AppImages integration but is Not Required because you can simply Grab and Run the AppImage as is.