Proton drive not an option when creating a new remote

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

After first installation of rclone (using fedora 40) I planned on creating a remote for my proton drive according to this guide: Proton Drive
Unfortunately proton drive is not an option (see the log) as the guide suggests. Where can I find the proton drive option.

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone 1.64.2
- os/version: fedora 40 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 6.8.9-300.fc40.x86_64 (x86_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.21.6
- go/linking: dynamic
- go/tags: none

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

I am planing on using Proton Drive

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone config

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

As this occures just after the installation of rclone using the dnf package manager before the first config is created there is no config yet

<5>NOTICE: Config file "/home/jonas/.config/rclone/rclone.conf" not found - using defaults
; empty config
### Double check the config for sensitive info before posting publicly

A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag

<7>DEBUG : rclone: Version "1.64.2" starting with parameters ["rclone" "config" "-vv"]
<7>DEBUG : rclone: systemd logging support activated
<5>NOTICE: Config file "/home/jonas/.config/rclone/rclone.conf" not found - using defaults
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Enter name for new remote.
name> remote

Option Storage.
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
 1 / 1Fichier
   \ (fichier)
 2 / Akamai NetStorage
   \ (netstorage)
 3 / Alias for an existing remote
   \ (alias)
 4 / Amazon Drive
   \ (amazon cloud drive)
 5 / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers including AWS, Alibaba, ArvanCloud, Ceph, China Mobile, Cloudflare, GCS, DigitalOcean, Dreamhost, Huawei OBS, IBM COS, IDrive e2, IONOS Cloud, Leviia, Liara, Lyve Cloud, Minio, Netease, Petabox, RackCorp, Scaleway, SeaweedFS, StackPath, Storj, Synology, Tencent COS, Qiniu and Wasabi
   \ (s3)
 6 / Backblaze B2
   \ (b2)
 7 / Better checksums for other remotes
   \ (hasher)
 8 / Box
   \ (box)
 9 / Cache a remote
   \ (cache)
10 / Citrix Sharefile
   \ (sharefile)
11 / Combine several remotes into one
   \ (combine)
12 / Compress a remote
   \ (compress)
13 / Dropbox
   \ (dropbox)
14 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ (crypt)
15 / Enterprise File Fabric
   \ (filefabric)
16 / FTP
   \ (ftp)
17 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ (google cloud storage)
18 / Google Drive
   \ (drive)
19 / Google Photos
   \ (google photos)
20 / HTTP
   \ (http)
21 / Hadoop distributed file system
   \ (hdfs)
22 / HiDrive
   \ (hidrive)
23 / In memory object storage system.
   \ (memory)
24 / Internet Archive
   \ (internetarchive)
25 / Jottacloud
   \ (jottacloud)
26 / Koofr, Digi Storage and other Koofr-compatible storage providers
   \ (koofr)
27 / Local Disk
   \ (local)
28 / Mail.ru Cloud
   \ (mailru)
29 / Mega
   \ (mega)
30 / Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
   \ (azureblob)
31 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ (onedrive)
32 / OpenDrive
   \ (opendrive)
33 / OpenStack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Blomp Cloud Storage, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ (swift)
34 / Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
   \ (oracleobjectstorage)
35 / Pcloud
   \ (pcloud)
36 / PikPak
   \ (pikpak)
37 / Put.io
   \ (putio)
38 / QingCloud Object Storage
   \ (qingstor)
39 / Quatrix by Maytech
   \ (quatrix)
40 / SMB / CIFS
   \ (smb)
41 / SSH/SFTP
   \ (sftp)
42 / Sia Decentralized Cloud
   \ (sia)
43 / Sugarsync
   \ (sugarsync)
44 / Transparently chunk/split large files
   \ (chunker)
45 / Union merges the contents of several upstream fs
   \ (union)
46 / Uptobox
   \ (uptobox)
47 / WebDAV
   \ (webdav)
48 / Yandex Disk
   \ (yandex)
49 / Zoho
   \ (zoho)
50 / premiumize.me
   \ (premiumizeme)
51 / seafile
   \ (seafile)
Storage> 


According to the docs, the Proton Drive backend was first introduced with the 1.64 beta; not sure why yours isn't listing it. How did you install rclone?

I think no point to investigate some old versions. For sure it is available in the latest rclone (v1.66).

I used the default package manager (dnf) in Fedora 40 and of couse I tried sudo dnf updatebut this is the version Fedora ships with and according to the documentation it should offer Proton Drive

Talk to Fedora maintainers to fix it. Possibly they compile their own version. It is out of the scope of this forum to support specific linux releases. Or remove it and install the latest version directly from rclone website.

It is very common that linux repositories are out of date.

I checked all of my VMs and found that NixOS runs the exact same version as Fedora 40. Proton Drive shows up as expected on the remotes list. I agree with @kapitainsky: this is most likely a Fedora issue.

I will install the latest version manually. Thanks for the help

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