Linux installation

You can install the Connect SFTP tool on Linux in two ways:

To install the Connect SFTP tool system-wide, you can use the following steps:

Download the Connect binary from the official website (https://connect.io/downloads).

Choose the correct binary for your system:

Once downloaded, you can rename it to connect and make it executable:

$ mv connect-linux-amd64 connect
$ chmod +x connect

Create a directory for Connect in /opt:

$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/connect

Copy the downloaded binary to the new directory:

$ sudo cp connect /opt/connect/

Create a symbolic link to the binary in /usr/local/bin so that it can be accessed from anywhere:

$ sudo ln -s /opt/connect/connect /usr/local/bin/connect

Set the correct permissions for the binary:

$ sudo chmod 755 /opt/connect/connect

You can verify that the installation was successful by running the following command:

$ connect --version

If the installation was successful, you can proceed to activate your license.

To install the Connect SFTP tool for a single user, you can follow these steps:

Download the Connect binary from the official website (https://connect.io/downloads).

Choose the correct binary for your system:

Once downloaded, you can rename it to connect and make it executable:

$ mv connect-linux-amd64 connect
$ chmod +x connect

Create a directory for Connect in your home directory:

$ mkdir -p ~/connect

Move the downloaded binary to the new directory:

$ mv connect ~/connect/

Add the Connect directory to your PATH by adding the following line to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file:

export PATH="$HOME/connect:$PATH"

Source your shell configuration file to apply the changes:

$ source ~/.bashrc
# or
$ source ~/.zshrc

You can verify that the installation was successful by running the following command:

$ connect --version

If the installation was successful, you can proceed to activate your license.
Activate your license