GIGOLO – A BEST APPLICATION FOR LINUX TO MANAGE REMOTE FILE SYSTEM
GIGOLO – A BEST APPLICATION FOR LINUX TO MANAGE REMOTE FILE SYSTEM
Introduction
In this article we are going to learn How to install Gigolo remote file system manager in Ubuntu 16.04. Gigolo is a open source GUI (Graphical User Interface) application for Linux used to browse remote shares or remote file system easily. It uses GVfs or GIO to access and manage remote file system. Gigolo is a alternative application of Konqueror, GNOME Nautilus. It’s an user friendly application and any one can use this application to connect and access remote shares. You just have to select the Service type eg : Windows Share, SSH, FTP then enter your Username, Password and Port number to access the remote file system.
Follow the below steps to install Gigolo – a best application for Linux to manage remote file system
Before start the installation of Gigolo remote file system manager application let’s update packages & repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
After updating the packages & repositories now we are ready to install the Gigolo package. To install this app we don’t have to install any 3rd party PPA repository as it’s a part of default repository of Ubuntu 16.04. So let’s go ahead and install the same using below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install gigolo # Install the Package
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
mc-data
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gigolo
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 228 not upgraded.
Need to get 133 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,022 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 gigolo amd64 0.4.2-1 [133 kB]
Fetched 133 kB in 1s (71.8 kB/s)
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Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Setting up gigolo (0.4.2-1) ...
As you can see above we have successfully installed the Gigolo remote file system manager package. Now to confirm the same use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l gigolo # Confirm the installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii gigolo 0.4.2-1 amd64 frontend to manage connections to remote filesystems using GIO/GVfs
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Now to open the application just type the command gigolo on shell prompt. Refer the command below.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ gigolo # Open the application
GIGOLO REMOTE FILE SYSTEM MANAGER
Application Version :
GIGOLO APPLICATION VERSION
You can also open the Gigolo remote file system manager graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.
OPEN GIGOLO APPLICATION GRAPHICALLY
To uninstall the application use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r gigolo # Uninstall the Gigolo remote file system manager Package
(Reading database ... 212502 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gigolo (0.4.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
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