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title: Install Google Photos Sync on Linux | Snap Store
description: Get the latest version of Google Photos Sync for Linux - Google Photos
  Sync
url: https://snapcraft.io/gphotos-sync
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# Google Photos Sync (gphotos-sync)

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latest/stable 2.14.2

Install latest/stable of Google Photos Sync

This channel hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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**Install using the command line**

```
sudo snap install gphotos-sync
```

Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

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### Package name

* gphotos-sync

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### License

* MIT

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### Last updated

* 13 May 2020 - latest/stable
* 5 May 2022 - latest/edge

This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/gphotos-sync#report-snap-modal)

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* [Description](https://snapcraft.io/gphotos-sync#tab-description)
* [Security](https://snapcraft.io/gphotos-sync#tab-security)

#### Google Photos Sync

\*\* Google Photos Sync.\*\*

Google Photos Sync is a command-line utility which downloads your Google Photos to the local file system. It will backup all the photos the user uploaded to Google Photos, but also the album information and additional Google Photos 'Creations' (animations, panoramas, movies, effects and collages).

In order to work, gphotos-sync first needs a valid client id linked to a project authorized to use the 'Photos Library API'. It is not provided in the distribution. Each client id is given a (large) limited number of free API calls to Google Services. If this distribution shared the client id, all users would share this resource limit. This is a little fiddly but only needs to be done once.

* Create a project on Google Developer Console - <https://developers.google.com/console/> , following the Creating a project procedure - <https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-projects>
* Authorize it to use the 'Photos Library API', following the Activating and deactivating APIs procedure - <https://cloud.google.com/apis/docs/enable-disable-apis>
* Create a Client ID by following the setting up oauth 2.0 procedure with application type set to **Other** - <https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6158849?hl=en>
* Once the client ID is created, download it as client\_secret.json and save it under the application configuration directory
  `~/snap/gphotos-sync/current/.config/gphotos-sync`

Find out more from the upstream developer repo at: <https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync>

Built with ♥️ from the source at <https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync>

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## Install Google Photos Sync on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the [installing snapd documentation](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

[### Arch Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/gphotos-sync/arch)

[### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/gphotos-sync/centos)

[### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/gphotos-sync/debian)

[### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/gphotos-sync/elementary)

[### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/gphotos-sync/fedora)

[### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/gphotos-sync/kde-neon)

[### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/gphotos-sync/kubuntu)

[### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/gphotos-sync/manjaro)

[### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/gphotos-sync/pop)

[### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/gphotos-sync/opensuse)

[### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/gphotos-sync/rhel)

[### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/gphotos-sync/ubuntu)

[### Raspberry Pi](https://snapcraft.io/install/gphotos-sync/raspbian)