How to Install Photo Stream on Void Linux

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install Photo Stream on Void Linux.

Photo Stream is a command-line tool for macOS and Linux that automatically downloads photos and videos from iCloud and Google Photos to your local file system.

Prerequisites

Before we start, make sure that you have the following packages installed on your Void Linux system:

git
make
gcc
libc-dev

You can install all these packages using the xbps package manager with the following command:

sudo xbps-install -Sy git make gcc libc-dev

Installation Steps

Follow the below steps to install Photo Stream on your Void Linux:

Open the terminal on your Void Linux system.
Clone the Photo Stream repository from GitHub using the following command:
```
git clone https://github.com/waschinski/photo-stream.git
```
Change the current working directory to the cloned repository:
```
cd photo-stream
```
Compile and install the Photo Stream application with the following command:
```
make
sudo make install
```
Once the installation is complete, Photo Stream will be available on your system. You can verify the installation by running the following command:
```
photo-stream --help
```
To use Photo Stream, you need to configure it with your iCloud or Google Photos account details. You can do this by creating a configuration file in your home directory named .photostreamrc.

Here is an example configuration file:
```
# iCloud Account
icloud_username = your_iCloud_username
icloud_password = your_iCloud_password

# Google Photos Account
google_username = your_google_photos_username
google_password = your_google_photos_password
```
Replace the placeholder values with your actual account details.
Once you have created the configuration file, you can start using Photo Stream to download your photos and videos to your local file system. Here is an example command:
```
photo-stream download /path/to/save/photos
```
Replace /path/to/save/photos with the location on your local file system where you want to save the downloaded photos and videos.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Photo Stream on Void Linux. Now you can use the tool to automatically download photos and videos from iCloud and Google Photos to your local file system.