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The ownCloud documentation mentions a command line client owncloudcmd which is supposed to be installed as part of the ownCloud Client package.

I have the owncloud-client package from the official repositories installed on Ubuntu 18.04 (version 2.4.1). The GUI client works but I cannot find this owncloudcmd executable.

Does anybody know why the Ubuntu package doesn't contain owncloudcmd, and how I can install it?

They split the package in two:

• 
  the package owncloud-client holds the GUI program owncloud while


• 
  the package owncloud-client-cmd holds the CLI program owncloudcmd
  

The latter doesn’t depend on the GUI program, which probably is why they split the two – on a headless system you don’t need the GUI, so no need to install it. To use owncloudcmd you just need to install the aforementioned package:

sudo apt install owncloud-client-cmd

On Ubuntu 18.04 this installs version 2.4.1 of the program. If for any reason you need the current version 2.4.2 and/or updates to the current version at any time, I recommend installing the Ubuntu PPA from software.opensuse.org. Follow these steps to set it up and install the package (I simplified this a bit):

1. 
   

   Remove the repository package (you may skip this step if you didn’t install it):

   
   
   

   sudo apt remove owncloud-client,-cmd
   

   
   


2. 
   

   Add the repository:

   
   
   

   echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:/ownCloud:/desktop/Ubuntu_18.04/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/isv:ownCloud:desktop.list
   

   
   


3. 
   

   Add the repository key:

   
   
   

   wget -nv https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:ownCloud:desktop/Ubuntu_18.04/Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
   

   
   


4. 
   

   Update the sources and install the newest package version available. As the PPA‘s version is newer, this ignores the official repository’s owncloud-client package:

   
   
   

   sudo apt update && sudo apt install owncloud-client
   

   
   

After this owncloud and most notably owncloudcmd work out of the box:

$ owncloudcmd --version
ownCloud version 2.4.2 (build 9883)
Git revision d6e9755121c22b8033d18d496b0e59b7bb752b62
Using Qt 5.6.2, built against Qt 5.6.2
Using 'OpenSSL 1.0.2n 7 Dec 2017'