Installation and setup

Installation

The console client can be installed on the following operating systems:

• Ubuntu Linux 8.04 and higher.
• Debian 5 and higher
• Fedora 9 and later
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and higher
• CentOS 6 and higher

To install the client automatically, use the command for quick package installation.

Example of quick installation of a .deb package

echo "deb http://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-disk/deb/ stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yandex-disk.list > /dev/null && wget http://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-disk/YANDEX-DISK-KEY.GPG -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y yandex-disk

To install the client manually, download the appropriate version of the package at the corresponding link below.

Example of installation using the dpkg package manager

# dpkg -i yandex-disk_0.1.0.103_i386.deb

The repository is automatically installed at /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yandex.list.

Example of installing using the rpm package manager

# rpm -ivh yandex-disk-0.1.0.103-1.fedora.i386.rpm

The repository is automatically installed at the address /etc/yum.repos.d/yandex.repo.

You can also add the repository with the yandex-disk package to the list of available package manager repositories and install the package using the utilities apt-get or yum.

Installation using apt-get

Alert

Save a copy of the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yandex.list before making changes to it.

# wget -O YANDEX-DISK-KEY.GPG http://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-disk/YANDEX-DISK-KEY.GPG
# apt-key add YANDEX-DISK-KEY.GPG
# echo "deb http://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-disk/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yandex-disk.list
# apt-get update
# apt-get install yandex-disk

Installation using yum

# nano /etc/yum.repos.d/yandex.repo
# rpm --import http://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-disk/YANDEX-DISK-KEY.GPG
# yum install yandex-disk

File contents yandex.repo:

[yandex]
name=Yandex
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-disk/rpm/stable/$basearch/
enabled=1
metadata_expire=1d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-disk/YANDEX-DISK-KEY.GPG

Setup Wizard

You can run the initial client setup using the setup command.

$ yandex-disk setup

1. Enter the name of the directory where a local copy of Disk is stored. If you leave the name blank, a Yandex Disk folder will be created in the home directory.
2. Specify whether or not to use a proxy server (y/n).
3. Indicate whether or not to launch the client at startup (y/n).

After the Wizard has finished, the configuration file config.cfg will be created in the directory ~/.config/yandex-disk.

# Path to the authorization data file
auth="/home/user/.config/yandex-disk/passwd"

# Directory for storing a local copy of Yandex Disk.
dir="/home/user/myDisk"

# Do not sync the specified directories.
#exclude-dirs="exclude/dir1,exclude/dir2,path/to/another/exclude/dir"

# Specify the proxy server. Examples:
#proxy=https,127.0.0.1,80
#proxy=https,127.0.0.1,80,login,password
#proxy=https,127.0.0.1,443
#proxy=socks4,my.proxy.local,1080,login,password
#proxy=socks5,my.another.proxy.local,1081
#proxy=auto
#proxy=no

Restore Yandex Disk

To restore Yandex Disk after reinstalling your operating system, replacing a hard drive, or deleting the program:

1. Re-install the application.
2. Configure the client. If you still have any old Yandex Disk files on your computer, they will automatically sync with the server.