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rclone on Android with Termux

mcastillof edited this page Jan 18, 2024 · 6 revisions

Package

The rclone pre-compiled binary package is available for Termux. You can install it with

pkg install rclone

Compilation

or you can compile and run manually. It doesn't require root. You can do it this way:

Update packages

-bash-4.4$ apt update
Get:1 http:https://termux.net stable InRelease [1684 B]
Get:2 http:https://termux.net stable/main all Packages [3592 B]
Get:3 http:https://termux.net stable/main arm Packages [46.7 kB]
Fetched 51.9 kB in 1s (36.2 kB/s)  
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
18 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

Install Go

-bash-4.4$ apt install golang git
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libisl libmpc libmpfr
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
  golang
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
Need to get 23.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 4096 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http:https://termux.net stable/main arm golang arm 2:1.7.4-1 [23.2 MB]
Fetched 23.2 MB in 4s (4914 kB/s) 
(Reading database ... 12400 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../golang_2%3a1.7.4-1_arm.deb ...
Unpacking golang (2:1.7.4-1) over (2:1.7.3) ...
Setting up golang (2:1.7.4-1) ...

Set GOPATH

-bash-4.4$ export GOPATH=`pwd`/go
-bash-4.4$ mkdir go

Compile (this took a couple of minutes on my phone)

-bash-4.4$ go install github.com/rclone/rclone@latest
github.com/ncw/rclone (download)
runtime/internal/sys
runtime/internal/atomic
runtime
[snip]
github.com/ncw/rclone/s3
github.com/ncw/rclone/fs/all
github.com/ncw/rclone

Find the rclone binary in go/bin/rclone

bash-4.4$ ./go/bin/rclone version
rclone v1.35-DEV