Hi,
Upon fresh install and first attempt to add a remote, I get this:
2020/04/11 17:48:29 Failed to save config after 10 tries: Failed to create temp file for new config: open /.../.../.config/rclone/rclone.conf649949317: permission denied
The directory .config/rclone has permissions (0755/drwxr-xr-x).
Very literally the same bug as here, except with version:
rclone v1.51.0
- os/arch: linux/amd64
- go version: go1.13.7
What do you recommend I do?
Thanks very much in advance!
hello and welcome to the forum,
not sure we can call this a bug yet.
it seems to be a permissions issue that could happend with any app.
how did you install rclone?
Hi, thanks !
Well, I simply followed the instructions on the install page:
curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash
I'm surprised as I installed rclone (probably the same way, can't remember) on another machine with Linux Mint a year ago or so and everything went smoothly.
What user are you running as?
What does:
rclone config file
show?
from that same webpage
sudo cp rclone /usr/bin/
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/rclone
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/rclone
Just the local user, no sudo. I tried now with sudo rclone, and that works, but I was hoping to be able to use it and configure it only as a local user.
The result of rclone config file is
~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
However, the dir is empty.
This is a bug in the install script which accidentally leaves your config directory owned by root 
sudo chown -R $USER ~/.config/rclone
should fix it
Well, I thought that part of the install was only required if one wanted to download specific binaries or versions separately. The install.sh script already installs rclone to /usr/bin/ and the authorizations are already 755.
And grand software, very helpful !!
I fixed the install.sh now 
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