Installing Gmail Filesystem

Gmail Filesystem no longer works with the latest Gmail interface, and will not be maintained in the future. Please see the latest news article for details.

• Make sure you have Python 2.3 (or later) installed. Most Linux distributions will have their own package for this (you'll also need the appropriate python2.3-dev packages).
• Recent kernels include FUSE by default. If you run an older kernel you will need to install version 2.x of FUSE. Some Linux distributions (such as Debian) come with a package. If your distro doesn't, you can find the source at FUSE's SourceForge download page. Depending on your platform you may have to copy fusermount to /usr/bin for correct operation.
• Download the Python FUSE bindings from FUSE's CVS repository. Checkout the python module using:
  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@fuse.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/fuse co -P python
  Then follow the instructions in python/INSTALL.

• Download a copy of libgmail. Recent releases currently work however if you experience problems you may wish to grab the CVS version of libgmail by f ollowing the instructions here. After downloading (or checking out) the file, copy libgmail.py and lgconstants.py to somewhere Python can find them (/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ works for Debian, others may vary).

• Download gmailfs-0.8.0.tar.gz. After untarring, copy gmailfs.py to somewhere easily accessible (for example, /usr/local/bin/gmailfs.py). Copy mount.gmailfs to the /sbin directory.