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Revision as of 02:01, 22 November 2010
Wuala is an application developed by Lacie. It is a solution to offer some online storage in the "cloud"
It allows automatic backup of your data and synchronisation between PCs as well as time keep track or "version" of you file (you can go back in time)
It is a Java application and because of that can more or less run on every computer.
On their website they only have a package for Ubuntu but there is a package for all the other.
To install it you need several packages
For Fedora 12 you will need to install:
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1, java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1, fuse-libs, fuse, xdg-utils
If you don't need the full system integration you don't need fuse-libs, fuse, xdg-utils but you will loose having a virtual drive of your online data on the desktop
1/ Installation of dependencies
yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1 fuse-libs fuse xdg-utils
2/ Download the latest version of wuala
wget http://www.wuala.com/files/wuala.tar.gz
3/ Untar it as root is /usr/local
cd /usr/local tar xvfz wuala.tar.gz
This will create a directory wuala.
4/ Manually start the program (make sure you have an account with them first)
/usr/local/wuala/wuala -basepath /usr/local/wuala login YourUserName YourPassword
