How to install from source on Debian Jessie

Martin Gallant contributed this checklist to install google-drive-ocamlfuse on a fresh Debian Jessie VM with only the base packages installed. (Updated for Jessie 8.2 installed via netinstall. See issue #145.)

These utilities get me started from a base Debian Jessie install:

sudo apt-get install sudo ssh

Then install project dependencies:

sudo apt-get install opam ocaml make fuse-dev camlp4-extra build-essential pkg-config

(Starting with debian 8, the /dev/fuse device is world-writable by default so these next few steps are only necessary on Debian 7.)

Create fuse group (if not already present):

sudo groupadd fuse

Debian has a special user group to allow fuse access. Log out, and log back in after this to make change effective:

sudo usermod -a -G fuse *user*

I think this is a bug in Jessie, as this was already done in all my other Debian boxes:

sudo chown root:fuse /dev/fuse
sudo chmod 660 /dev/fuse

Get the packages installed. I used the default on all installer prompts:

opam init
opam update
opam install depext
eval `opam config env`
opam depext google-drive-ocamlfuse
opam install google-drive-ocamlfuse
. /home/*user*/.opam/opam-init/init.sh > /dev/null 2> /dev/null || true

Have fun!

google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/your/mount/point/here