How To mount and use your Googledrive in Linux Mint Cinnamon 18

and other on Ubuntu based Linux                                         

This short tutorial was created for Mint newcomers which own a Gmail account and have no idea how to access their Googledrive in Linux Mint.

It was made simple as possible, inspired by the detailed "How to mount Google Drive on Linux" -

all credits goes to Dan Nanni on Xmodulo.com and the developer Allessandro Strada

How To ...

Copy and paste following commands into your terminal,

without the   ~ $  or   #   and the following space,

f.e. for "~ $ sudo apt-get update"  - you just copy and paste   sudo apt-get update

Additional info for the newcomer: Terminal signs and their meaning:
~ $ = you are logged in as user - at your home directory (!)
 #  = you are logged in as root - (with the command pwd you can see, where you are) 

This manual was tested well under different circumstances on several Intel Machines, running Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon 64 bit (Sarah);Kernel 4.40-47 ; Cinnamon Version 3.0.7

Unfortunately this was neccessary because Sarah still lacks a client for Googledrive :-|

So here we are using a ppa, which is not an officially recommended way to add software because of possible security leaks.

If you can still live & sleep with this knowledge, like the author does very well, you can continue from here.
If you are one of these paranoid friends - you have to wait for a better solution -
but if you were paranoid - you would not use Google, don't ya ...

Here we go, don't worry it isn't any complicated,
just follow the instructions and clone the the actions as shown.
 

NOTE: You have to put your real username in the spaces where you see "username"
 

Open a terminal:

= username@yourcomputer ~ $
    (next:)
~ $ su
= Password:
(enter your [root] password and hit enter - note - there is no visual effect)
= YourComputer username #
    (next:)
 # apt-add-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa
    (your action: confirm ; next:)
 # apt update
    (next:)
 # apt install google-drive-ocamlfuse
    (your action: confirm ; next:)
 # groupadd fuse
    (next:)
 # usermod -a -G fuse username
    (next:)
 # exit
    then close the terminal-window.
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Open a NEW terminal (with your username - not as root !)

= username@yourcomputer ~ $
    (next:)
~ $ exec su -l $USER
= Password:
(enter your password and hit enter - note - there is no visual effect)
    (next:)

At this point quit your browser - Firefox by default;
shut all windows _NOW_ (important!)

    (next:)
~ $ google-drive-ocamlfuse

    Now Firefox (by system default) will open up a window,
    asking you to log in to your Google account.
    Log in with your Google account with name and password.
    After logging in, Google is requesting for permission.
    Click on "Accept". 
    Next you have to grant access to your Google account.
    Click on "Allow".
    Then you should see a message saying that google-drive-       ocamlfuse was
    successfully granted access.
    Important:
    Close the Firefox tab / window  NOW  - to finalize the    
procedure.
    After you will see this feedback in your terminal-window:

= Access token retrieved correctly.

    Now a mount point needs to be created,
    for that you can access to your Googledrive as a mounted volume,
    it will appear in the window of your "Files" manager
    (in Cinnamon = Nemo, by default): 


~ $ mkdir ~/googledrive
    (no feedback; next:)
~ $ google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/googledrive
    (no feedback; next:)
~ $ mount
= a lot of feedback; the LAST line should look like this:
    "google-drive-ocamlfuse on /home/username/googledrive type fuse.google-drive-ocamlfuse
    (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1001,group_id=1002)"
    (the handcrafting on the terminal is done for now, and so next:)
~ $ exit
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Open your File Manager, for Cinnamon it is called "Files" News- the internal name is "Nemo"

Now you should see your "googledrive" - additional attached as a volume in your filemanger,
you can use it like an usual attached device, like an USB stick, f.e.
_
It will be available until you shutdown/restart your system.

If you wish to disconnect your googledrive manually, paste this command in a terminal:
~ $ fusermount -u ~/googledrive

If you wish to connect your googledrive manually, paste this command in a terminal:

~ $  google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/googledrive