ExpanDrive is a piece of software that allows you to conveniently mount your cloud storage drives so they appear in your Finder alongside the rest of your removable storage devices. ExpanDrive is an SFTP client for Windows that allows access to your SSH server just like a USB hard drive connected directly to your PC. You can browse remote files from within My Computer.
Expandrive Cli
Here we are showing the process to install and configure ExpanDrive on Ubuntu 19.04 along with Redhat or Centos Linux.
What is ExpanDrive?
Expandrive is an application that allows users to mount the cloud storage drives directly on the Windows, MacOS and Linux just like the local drives under the Expandrive app. It helps to make us hassle free of opening browser and log in to cloud storage for downloading or uploading some file.
The cloud providers it supports are Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Team Drives, Amazon Drive, Box, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, Sharepoint, OOpenStackSwift, BackBlaze B2, Amazon S3 or your own SFTP, FTP or WebDAV server and SMB/Windows File Sharing.
Installation of ExpanDrive is pretty easy on Windows and MacOS, however, for Ubuntu and RedHat, the company has recently publicized the Linux version of the same software. Here we are showing the installation on Ubuntu and Redhat which will the same for other Linux OS such as Linux Mint, Debian, Elementary OS, Centos, Fedora including older versions of Ubuntu such as 18.04, 17.04, 16.04, 15.04…
Install ExpandDrive for Linux on Ubuntu/Debian/Mint
- Login to your Linux Debian based operating system.
- Here we are using Ubuntu 19.04 for the Expandrive installation.
- Open the browser.
- Go to ExpanDrive website. Here is the link for that.
- Download Linux ExpandDrive version for your Operating system. For Debian based select ExpanDrive_x.x.x_amd64.deb.
- Now open the Command terminal, keyboard shortcut CTRL+ATL+T
- Switch to Downloads directory. The command for that
- Type: ls to see the files inside the Downloads directory
- Now type the below command to install Expandrive Linux version
The output of the command:
Setup Epandrive for Linux
Expandrive Vs Netdrive
Click on the Expandrive icon to run it.
Enter the name and email address and click on Start free trial.
Select the cloud storage service you want to connect with and follow the wizard.
For Expandrive installation on Redhat, Centos, Fedora and the other same type of Linux OS, the only difference will be the command to install the software.
That means first download the Expandrive for RHEL from its official website the link for that has been given at the beginning of this article and install it using below command:
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