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How to add pCloud Drive to Startup on Ubuntu

How to add pCloud Drive to Startup on Ubuntu

If you are a cloud storage shopper, you could have come across pCloud Drive. It's a popular cloud service offering 10GB free storage space for saving your work and personal files on a secure cloud. The storage drive is accessible via your web browser or by using a desktop client.

In this tutorial, we are going to walk you through installing its desktop client on Ubuntu. Also, we will enable the pCloud service to startup automatically when the system starts.

Before starting our tutorial, we need to make sure that your Ubuntu is up-to-date using the following commands:

sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade

Installing pCloud on Ubuntu

Step 1. Download the deb package from the official website. (Click Here.)

Download Pcloud Drive For Linux 64 Bit

Step 2. Save the deb package.

Pcloud Deb Package

Step 4. Move to the Downloads directory.

cd Downloads ls

Move To The Downloads Directory

Step 5. To install the deb package, we need to install the gdebi first.

sudo apt install gdebi

Install Gdebi Package

Step 6. After the gdebi installed successfully, you can install the pCloud deb package.

sudo gdebi pCloud_Linux_amd64_3.1.1.deb

Install the Deb Package

Step 7. Now let's open the pCloud drive desktop client. You can use one of the following two methods:

First Method: Launch desktop client using the terminal:

psyncgui

Autostart

Second Method: Look for pCloud and open it.

launch

Step 8. You can now login to your account or create a new account if you do not have one.

Welcome

Add pCloud Drive to Startup Applications

To make the app to start automatically during the system startup, launch the Ubuntu startup applications, and add the program's path to the startup applications.

Step 1. From the left panel, open the installed applications then open the startup applications.

Open Startup Applications

Step 2. The startup applications preference interface should look like the below screenshot.

Startup Applications Preferences

Step 3. Now press the Add button.

Press the Add Button

The add startup program window should look like the below screenshot.

Add A Startup Application

Step 4. Next, you can browse the location of the installed desktop client. Then press the Add button to continue.

Add The Application To Startup Applications

Step 5. As you can see in the below screenshot, the app has been added successfully to your startup applications. Now you are done and can restart your system.

Application Added To Startup Applications Successfully

Congratulations, you have just installed the pCloud drive desktop client on Ubuntu and enabled the automatic startup.

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