Mega backend missing from debian sid rclone package

[elig0n]

hi i cannot seem to find mega.nz in the backends list or via config

[darthShadow]

https://rclone.org/mega/

[elig0n]

Yes I've seen that but it doesn't work. LIke I said there was no "mega" in the list and typing it in didn't help either.

[darthShadow]

What version of rclone are you using? Perhaps its too old. I am able to configure and use the Mega backend without issues on the latest rclone beta. It has been available for at least the last couple of stable releases.

[elig0n]

rclone v1.50.2

• os/arch: linux/amd64
• go version: go1.13.6

on WSL Debian sid, installed via apt.
The manual page does show "* Mega" in the list of supported providers but not in the one from rclone help backends.
The backends I see when inside interactive 'rclone config' are 32 in number and as follows:

  1 / 1Fichier
   \ "fichier"
 2 / Alias for an existing remote
   \ "alias"
 3 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 4 / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Provider (AWS, Alibaba, Ceph, Digital Ocean, Dreamhost, IBM COS, Minio, etc)
   \ "s3"
 5 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 6 / Box
   \ "box"
 7 / Cache a remote
   \ "cache"
 8 / Citrix Sharefile
   \ "sharefile"
 9 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
10 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
11 / FTP Connection
   \ "ftp"
12 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
13 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
14 / Google Photos
   \ "google photos"
15 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
16 / JottaCloud
   \ "jottacloud"
17 / Koofr
   \ "koofr"
18 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
19 / Mail.ru Cloud
   \ "mailru"
20 / Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
   \ "azureblob"
21 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
22 / OpenDrive
   \ "opendrive"
23 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
24 / Pcloud
   \ "pcloud"
25 / Put.io
   \ "putio"
26 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
27 / Transparently chunk/split large files
   \ "chunker"
28 / Union merges the contents of several remotes
   \ "union"
29 / Webdav
   \ "webdav"
30 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
31 / http Connection
   \ "http"
32 / premiumize.me
   \ "premiumizeme"

[darthShadow]

Weird, mine shows 36 backends. Just tried a local 1.50.1 beta and its showing up there too.

Would you mind upgrading to the latest version from the official downloads ?

[ncw]

on WSL Debian sid, installed via apt.

I wonder if debian are leaving out the mega backend for some reason. There are no build constraints on the mega backend so it should be present...

Ah yes, I see this in the source package

debian/patches/0002-Disable-mega-backend.patch

@toddy15 can you tell us the reason for this - It didn't say in the patch. Is there something I could do to make the backend acceptable for Debian? Thanks!

[soredake]

https://sources.debian.org/patches/rclone/1.50.2-3/0002-Disable-mega-backend.patch/

[stratosgear]

I ended up here, too, since mega does not appear in the v1.50.2 version of rclone that is installed on Ubuntu 20.04

[soredake]

toddy@debian.org

[toddy15]

Hi @ncw,

the reason that the mega backend is disabled is simple: the package "github.com/t3rm1n4l/go-mega" is not available in Debian, therefore I cannot enable that backend.

As soon as t3rm1n4l/go-mega is available as a Debian package, the mega backend can be enabled.

Regards,
Tobias

[soredake]

Workaround for Ubuntu 20.10:

wget -qO - https://azlux.fr/repo.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://packages.azlux.fr/debian/ buster main"

[blademckain]

why for mega don't use the official Megasync for linux?

[soredake]

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=983445

[darthShadow]

At this point, we are blocked on go-mega not being available as a debian package (t3rm1n4l/go-mega#27). Posting here will not help resolve this so please focus your efforts on getting go-mega packaged for debian or finding a maintainer who can help with that.

[maltfield]

@darthShadow in the meantime, can you please update the website with a note indicating that "Mega" may be missing as a remote on some systems, and include a link link to this github issue?

That would have saved me (and certainly main others) a lot of time searching

[maltfield]

For users who prioritize using mega (over using rclone), there's a couple alternatives until this upstream issue is resolved:

1. The official mega MEGAsync GUI client https://mega.io/desktop
2. The official mega MEGAcmd CLI client https://mega.io/cmd
3. The unofficial megatools CLI client https://megatools.megous.com/

Ironically, the first two official packages are not in the Debian repos, but there is an RFP for that here

• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=939318

But the unofficial megatools package is in the Debian repos:

• https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/megatools

Unfortunately there's an auth bug in Debian 11's version of megatools, but the fixed version is available in Debian 12

• https://github.com/megous/megatools/issues/411

[firrsefu]

I've created a "bug" under Work-Needing and Prospective Packages to request go-mega be added to Debian so rclone can work with Mega.nz storage: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1039997

See also t3rm1n4l/go-mega#27

[Maytha8]

@darthShadow @ncw I've packaged go-mega in Debian (it just got into Debian Unstable), and I'm now working alongside Tobias to update the rclone package, get Mega re-enabled, among other things.

Feel free to ping me here or email me for anything else. 😄