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The OneDrive Client for Linux connects your Debian or Ubuntu system to Microsoft’s OneDrive Personal, OneDrive for Business, OneDrive for Office365, Sharepoint and other such deployments.
Install the OneDrive Client from the Debian or Ubuntu repository.
$ sudo -- bash -c 'apt update && apt install --yes onedrive'
Begin to connect the client to your OneDrive account.
$ onedrive --synchronize
You will be presented with a message similar to the following:
Configuring Global Azure AD endpoints Authorize this app visiting: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?client_id&scope=Files.ReadWrite%20Files.ReadWrite.all%20Sites.Read.All%Sites.ReadWrite.All%20offline_accessresponse_type=code&redirect_uri=https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/nativeclient Enter the response uri:
In the above dialog, copy or [Ctrl + Click] the URI beginning with https://login.microsoftonline.com/.
Use the URI from the previous step to sign into your Microsoft account. You will be redirected to a response URI displaying a blank page. Copy the response URI from the address field of your browser.
Paste the response URI into the terminal. On successful authentication, the OneDrive Client will connect to your Microsoft account and begin to download your data.
Initializing the Synchronization Engine … Syncing changes from OneDrive … Creating local directory: Downloading file … done. Uploading differences of ~/OneDrive Uploading new items of ~/OneDrive
After downloading your data to ~/OneDrive, validate the configuration of the client.
$ onedrive --display-config
If required, you may change the default configuration.
Enable OneDrive Client for the local user bookworm.
$ sudo -- bash -c 'systemctl enable onedrive@bookworm.service && systemctl start onedrive@bookworm.service && systemctl status onedrive@bookworm.service'
All done!
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