Install the accsyn Desktop App

What is the desktop app?

The accsyn app is desktop application is primarily for providing accelerated accsyn p2p file transfers running in the background (tray), but also has a GUI enabling advanced functionality.

Besides being driven by browser deliveries, the accsyn Desktop app can be used standalone to:

• Access a shared folder or collection, as a user.

• Manage the accsyn Media Vault - ingest and manage your media, as a manager.

• Browse and manage File Sharing on your Cloud or BYOS, as a manager.

• Submit render jobs and publish files in BYOS configurations.

The app is written in Java and requires Java installed on Linux platforms, Windows & Mac installers has Java bundled.

Where to download

Find the links to the app installer @ https://accsyn.io/getapp, login with the personal accsyn account you activated above.

Windows install

There are two options for installing the desktop app:

• Install only for me (default); Requires no administrator previleges, app will be installed in your account profile.

• Run installer as administrator, making it available for all machine users; Will install the accsyn app in C:\Program Files.

Hint: Pin it to your task bar for easy access in the future.

Mac install

Open the installer DMG and then drag-n-drop the app to were you want to install it.

Hint: Pin it to your menu bar for easy access in the future.

Linux install

You can install [YourAppName] on most major Linux distributions using the appropriate package format:

• .deb for Debian-based systems (like Ubuntu, Linux Mint)

• .rpm for Red Hat-based systems (like Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE)

1. Install Java:

• RHEL/CentOS 7 and earlier; sudo yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless.

• RHEL/CentOS 8 or later: dnf install java-17-openjdk-headless.

• Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install -y default-jre-headless.

• OpenSUSE: sudo zypper --non-interactive install java-1_8_0-openjdk-headless.

2. Download the installer;  For .deb (Debian-based): accsyn_3.2-3_10.all.deb, for .rpm (Red Hat-based): accsyn-3.2-3_10.x86_64.rpm (replace the version with the current release)

3.  Install

•  Debian/Ubuntu (.deb):  sudo apt install ./yourapp_1.2.3.deb (or extract and then move to a folder of choice: sudo dpkg -x accsyn_3.2-3_10.all.deb && sudo mv usr/local/accsyn <folder>.

• Fedora (.rpm): sudo dnf install accsyn-3.2-3_10.x86_64.rpm.

• RHEL (.rpm): sudo yum localinstall accsyn-3.2-3_10.x86_64.rpm.

• OpenSUSE  (.rpm):  sudo zypper install accsyn-3.2-3_10.x86_64.rpm.

Verify the application by running it and logon to accsyn

Linux desktop launchers

These are normally created by the installers, but can be manually created as required.

Ubuntu:

Create  ~/.local/share/applications/accsyn.desktop (system wide: /usr/share/applications)

[Desktop Entry]

Name=accsyn

Comment=Launch accsyn

Exec=/usr/local/accsyn/accsyn App

Icon=/usr/local/accsyn/accsyn_icon_512.png

Terminal=false

Type=Application

Categories=Utility