You’re running a recent distro and can’t find an up-to-date repo for it?

Consider using the beta release repos or the AppImage (see below).

In the beta release repos we strive to update the clients as soon as ownCloud provides them, and if you’re keen to follow new distros as they are made available, this is where you get them first.

The main repos in this page undergo further testing, on top of the testing made by ownCloud, and this is why they are often behind in terms of supported distributions.

Alma Linux/RHEL 8 or 9

If you are running a CERN OS Image, you can use locmap to configure CERNBox:

dnf install locmap
locmap --enable cernbox
locmap --configure cernbox

 

Otherwise, just install manually from the repositories

cat <<EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/cernbox-stable.repo
[cernbox-stable]
name=cernbox [stable]
baseurl=http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/internal/repos/cernbox\${releasever}al-stable/x86_64/os
enabled=1
gpgcheck=False
EOF

dnf install cernbox-client

Ubuntu

export VERSION=$(lsb_release -rs)
# example: the command above will set 18.04 if you are on Bionic Beaver
wget -q -O- https://cernbox.cern.ch/cernbox/doc/Linux/repo/Ubuntu_${VERSION}/Release.key  | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/cernbox.asc
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://cernbox.cern.ch/cernbox/doc/Linux/repo/Ubuntu_${VERSION}/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cernbox-client.list"
sudo apt update
sudo apt install cernbox-client

Fedora

source /etc/os-release
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://cernbox.cern.ch/cernbox/doc/Linux/repo/Fedora_${VERSION_ID}
sudo rpm --import https://cernbox.cern.ch/cernbox/doc/Linux/repo/Fedora_${VERSION_ID}/repodata/repomd.xml.key
sudo dnf clean all
sudo dnf install cernbox-client
sudo dnf upgrade cernbox-client

Debian

export VERSION=9.0
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
wget -q -O- https://cernbox.cern.ch/cernbox/doc/Linux/repo/Debian_${VERSION}/Release.key  | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb https://cernbox.cern.ch/cernbox/doc/Linux/repo/Debian_${VERSION}/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cernbox-client.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cernbox-client

# If you have any problem related with keys (like public key not available):
# edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cernbox-client.list and comment out the cernbox repo
apt-get update
# edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cernbox-client.list again and re-enable the repo
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
  • Thanks to Paul Seyfert for contributing to installation instructions for Debian.
  • Thanks to Michael Davis for contributing the steps to solve the package keys problem.

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 / 15.3

sudo rpm --import https://cernboxdistr.web.cern.ch/cernboxdistr/Linux/repo/openSUSE_Leap_${VERSION_ID}/repodata/repomd.xml.key
sudo zypper addrepo https://cernboxdistr.web.cern.ch/cernboxdistr/Linux/repo/openSUSE_Leap_${VERSION_ID}/cernbox.repo
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install cernbox-client

Universal AppImage

If your OS is not officially supported, you can always download the AppImage. Suitable for Ubuntu 24.04 (ensure the libfuse2t64 package is installed), as well as for all latest distributions.

AppImage is an alternative way to use Linux applications, where the entire application is contained in a single file ending with an .AppImage suffix, including all necessary dependencies and libraries. The sync client is provided as a single AppImage based on CentOS 7, which runs on all modern and most older Linux platforms.

wget http://cernbox.cern.ch/cernbox/doc/Linux/repo/cernbox-5.2.1.13464-x86_64.AppImage

Unofficial clients

(contributed by CERNBox user comunity)

 

Archlinux

Installation page

Thanks to Johannes Lange for the contribution

 

Gentoo

Gentoo Science overlay

Thanks to Oliver Freyermuth for the contribution

 

Flatpak

Flatpak for the ownCloud client

Thanks to Daniel Fischer for the contribution