Installing Sync package on Linux

Installing Manually

Use it when released version is not pushed to repository (not all releases are). Download the proper package (according to your platform):

Downloads For DEB:

• x64
• arm64
• i386
• armel
• armhf

Downloads For RPM:

• x86_64
• i386
• arm
• armhf
• armhfp
• armv7l
• armv7hl
• aarch64

And install it:

• DEB:

  sudo dpkg -i <resilio-sync.deb>

• RPM:

  sudo rpm -i <resilio-sync.rpm>

See section Manage below to learn how to use it further.

Installing From Repository

To install Sync from Resilio repository, you need to complete 3 steps:

1. Add repository
2. Add GPG public key for package verification. Package manager verifies who created a package using its digital signature
3. Install the package using your package manager commands

Before installing Resilio Sync package, stop resilio-sync service if it's running.

For Debian-based Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Zorin, Elementary)

Create file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/resilio-sync.list to register Resilio repository:

echo "deb http://linux-packages.resilio.com/resilio-sync/deb resilio-sync non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/resilio-sync.list

For Ubuntu 22 and newer add public key with the following command:

wget -qO- https://linux-packages.resilio.com/resilio-sync/key.asc | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/resilio-sync.asc > /dev/null 2>&1

For older distributions, e.g. Ubuntu 20.04, add public key with the following command:

curl -L https://linux-packages.resilio.com/resilio-sync/key.asc | sudo apt-key add

For Raspberry Pi 1

sudo dpkg --add-architecture armel && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install resilio-sync:armel

Update packages index and install Sync

sudo apt-get update
        sudo apt-get install resilio-sync
        

For RPM-based Linux (Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE)

For OpenSUSE:

Add public key:

sudo rpm --import https://linux-packages.resilio.com/resilio-sync/key.asc

zypper ar --gpgcheck-allow-unsigned-repo -f https://linux-packages.resilio.com/resilio-sync/rpm/\$basearch resilio-sync

Create /etc/yum.repos.d/resilio-sync.repo to register Resilio repository:

printf "[resilio-sync]\nname=Resilio Sync\nbaseurl=https://linux-packages.resilio.com/resilio-sync/rpm/\$basearch\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\n" | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/resilio-sync.repo

Install Sync:

sudo yum install resilio-sync

Update Sync:

sudo yum check-update
sudo yum update resilio-sync  

Installing From Official Docker Image

Follow the guide from our official Docker hub page.

Systemd

Default Sync service settings

By default Sync is running under rslsync user with minimum privileges for security reasons. To enable automatic startup of Sync service under rslsync user:

sudo systemctl enable resilio-sync

If you need to synchronize files owned by current user - just add rslsync user to group of your current user and ensure read-write permissions for the mentioned group for the folder to be synced, for example:

sudo usermod -aG user_group rslsync
sudo usermod -aG rslsync user_name
sudo chmod g+rw synced_folder

where user_group is a group name of current user, by default it's the same as user name (can be checked by running id command), synced_folder - path to the folder to be added to Sync, user_name - name of the current user.

Running Sync under the current user

If you want to run Sync under your current user - edit file /usr/lib/systemd/user/resilio-sync.service and change "WantedBy=multi-user.target" to "WantedBy=default.target". Save this file and then enable the service with --user parameter:

systemctl --user enable resilio-sync

Systemctl can be also run with the following arguments: start, stop, enable, disable, status

For example, to start Sync under current user:

systemctl --user start resilio-sync

To force the user session to be active on headless linux, you can use command:

sudo loginctl enable-linger username

Upstart, SysV init

Run as rslsync user:

sudo service resilio-sync start 

Service can also be run with the following arguments: start, stop, restart