Can't mount with rclone - fusemount missing

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Hey, I’m testing a vps server and trying to mount my acd and gdrive but my Ubuntu 16.04 doesn’t seem to have fusemount installed(?) as on mount I get fusemount exec not in $path. I checked the system and then tried installing fuse from git but rclone wouldn’t play ball with that install… I know I’m probably missing something obvious here but could someone point me to the fuse (and more specifically fusemount) that rclone uses for mounting?

Fatal error: failed to mount FUSE fs: fusermount: exec: “fusermount”: executable file not found in $PATH

After fuse install
2016/12/18 20:02:36 mount helper error: fusermount: mount failed: Invalid argument
2016/12/18 20:02:36 Fatal error: failed to mount FUSE fs: fusermount: exit status 1

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Hi PJBurnhill,

It should be located in package fuse, which you should be able to install with apt-get:

apt-get install fuse

OTOH, if your VPS is “container-based” (ie, OpenVZ, etc) instead of VM-based (KVM, etc) you might have to contact your VPS provider and have them load the fuse module into the kernel, otherwise fuse won’t work.

Cheers,
Durval.

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Ah, excellent, thank you @durval, apparently my fuse installations from other sources didn’t go that well! Now working perfectly.

Thanks again for your help.

PJ

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Hi PJBurnhill,

You are welcome, and I’m glad to hear it’s working for you now.

Cheers,

Durval.