Linux CLI-only setup

[rcarmo]

Hi there!

I'd like to leave an "anti-request" here, since I would like to be able to use the Linux client without a GUI (or X, or anything else) and right now authorisation is hard-coded with an #ifdef(__linux__) to pop up a browser.

Could there be an option (build or run time) not to use WebKitGTK at all?

[jstaf]

Hah, an anti-request is still a feature! It'll likely need to be a build-time option, otherwise the compiled binary will get linked against WebKitGTK and require it as a dependency. I'll see what I can do to add that in.

Just as a heads up - it may be some time before this is implemented- my current dev priority is getting onedriver to sync server-side changes to the local client. In the meantime, you can delete the contents of the#ifdef(__linux__) sections from graph/oauth2_gtk.c and it will produce a GUI-free binary.

[jstaf]

Hey @rcarmo, I've rewritten things so that you can exclude WebKitGTK from the build by disabling CGo. If you build onedriver with CGO_ENABLED=0 go build, onedriver will be built without the popup browser (all of the C dependencies like WebKitGTK and X11 won't be required at runtime either this way).

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[pepa65]

This would be great to document, as it greatly simplifies the CLI-only build:

cd cmd/onedriver
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build
sudo cp onedriver /usr/local/bin/onedriver_cli

I am not sure how to configure a drive instance though...

[jstaf]

It's no longer documented because you can just use --no-browser option to authenticate from the CLI with the normal build. See the readme on setting up new drives - you can just do onedriver /path/to/mount, or alternatively use systemd to mount things automatically for you (see the readme).

[pepa65]

But it's nice not to have to install X and all kinds of packages that you don't need. I can't use the go binary that I built somewhere else, it will not work on a headless system if I use --no-browser... So I have to install libwebkit which pulls in all kinds of stuff I cannot use.

But I am glad to report that building without CGO still works! After issuing onedriver MNT authentication needs to happen at the URL displayed, and the URL that then appears in the URL bar of the browser needs to be pasted into the terminal, but then it all works!!