Nextcloud Virtual File System VFS on Ubuntu 24.10, 24.04, 22.04

This process should be able to be applied to previous versions such as Ubuntu 24.04, 22.04 and 20.04.

This guide was adapted from the original post (https://ryanvanmassenhoven.com/posts/Nextcloud-agent-virtual-file/) but with Ubuntu/Snap/Flatpak examples.

Let’s get to it!

1. Have the client installed, my recommendation is to use the Flatpak version to install Nextcloud as this means of distribution is generally more up-to-date than the apt repository version.
2. Shutdown the Nextcloud Client
3. Find the nextcloud.cfg

   

4. Use vi or nano to add the following line under the [General] section of nextcloud.cfg:
   
   showExperimentalOptions=true

   

5. Save nextcloud.cfg
6. Find the qt5 directory by using
   
   sudo find / -name qt5

   

7. Find the nextcloudsync_vfs* files by using
   
   sudo find / -name nextcloudsync_vfs*

   

8. Copy the nextcloudsync_vfs* to your qt5 directory.
   
   sudo cp
/var/lib/flatpak/app/com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud/x86_64/stable/2ca8436ed52fb12134028cc43abced17bf0d7a7d607a210c4536dab4c54a3624/files/lib/plugins/nextcloudsync_vfs* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/
   
9. Set the permissions
   
   sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/nextcloudsync_vfs_*
   
10. Start the client and set the folder to Enabled virtual file system. Press the the three dots ... then click Enabled virtual file system

    

11. All done!