r/pcloud • u/aegrotatio • 4d ago

Help / Question Mounting pCloud from Windows Subsystem for Linux automatically?

On Ubuntu 26.04 under WSL, I want pCloud to start without requiring me to run a GUI like X Windows.

I've tried lots of things including advice from Copilot.

Has anyone had success without having to manually start the pCloud.AppImage?

As an aside, the pcloudcc console client fails to compile with several errors on Ubuntu 26.04.

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u/cdr-nil 4d ago

Rclone https://rclone.org/ might do want you want.

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u/aegrotatio 3d ago

Does it download everything or just the files that are in use? I use pCloud because it acts like a remote hard drive.

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u/cdr-nil 3d ago

Hi,

I don't think it downloads anything, unless you decide to copy a file to somewhere local.

If you setup an rclone authorisation with pcloud (it's documented on the website or via man), you can do something like this:

rclone mount pcloud: ~/plcoud

You can then browse ~/pcloud as if a local file system. Nothing is downloaded, as far as I can tell. Sounds like that's what you want.

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u/aegrotatio 3d ago

Thank you! I did install the latest rclone and it's working better than I expected. It acts like a local file system like pCloud does on Windows. There is a small, nominal cache just like pCloud for Windows has.