How to install Tonido cloud server in Ubuntu

To install Tonido cloud server in Ubuntu

Tonido is a free tool that is used to access the linux machines through browser from any machine which is interconnected to the local network. It used to access the file and folders of a linux server. Installation of Tonido is explained in this article.

To install Tonido

Run the following command to install the dependencies.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install libjpeg8 libfontconfig -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting ' libfontconfig1'  instead of ' libfontconfig' 
libfontconfig1 is already the newest version.
libfontconfig1 set to manually installed.
libjpeg8 is already the newest version.
libjpeg8 set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 252 not upgraded.

Update your repository by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily InRelease
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security InRelease [65.9 kB]    
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-updates InRelease [65.9 kB]
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports InRelease              
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily/main Sources                                  
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily/restricted Sources           
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security/main Sources [55.3 kB]
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily/universe Sources                     
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily/multiverse Sources
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Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/restricted i386 Packages                                                                                                   
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/universe i386 Packages                                                                                                     
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/multiverse i386 Packages                                                                                                   
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/main Translation-en                                                                                                        
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/multiverse Translation-en                                                                                                  
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/restricted Translation-en                                                                                                  
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/universe Translation-en                                                                                                    
Fetched 1,569 kB in 29s (52.4 kB/s)                                                                                                                                        
Reading package lists... Done

Create a new directory for Tonido by using the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# mkdir /usr/local/tonido

Run the following command to download the Tonido package.

root@linuxhelp:~# wget http://www.tonido.com/download.php?tonido64.tar.gz
--2016-07-27 11:55:40--  http://www.tonido.com/download.php?tonido64.tar.gz
Resolving www.tonido.com (www.tonido.com)... 45.56.73.74
Connecting to www.tonido.com (www.tonido.com)|45.56.73.74|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 39452101 (38M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ download.php?tonido64.tar.gz’ 

download.php?tonido64.tar.gz               100%[==========================================================================================> ]  37.62M   518KB/s   in 2m 57s

2016-07-27 11:58:37 (218 KB/s) - ‘ download.php?tonido64.tar.gz’  saved [39452101/39452101]

Rename the package by using the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# ls
Desktop  Documents  download.php?tonido64.tar.gz  Downloads  examples.desktop  Music  Pictures  Public  Templates  Videos
root@linuxhelp:~# mv download.php?tonido64.tar.gz tonido64.tar.gz
root@linuxhelp:~# ls
Desktop  Documents  Downloads  examples.desktop  Music  Pictures  Public  Templates  tonido64.tar.gz  Videos

Extract the package into /usr/local/tonido

root@linuxhelp:~# tar -xzvf tonido64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/tonido
clientca.pem
clientcert.pem
config.xml
core.zip
domainlist.xml
ffmpeg.exe
ffmpegv.exe
guest.zip
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plugins/websharepro/icon.gif
resources.zip
tonido.png
tonido.sh
tonidoconsole
tonidogtk
tonidostart.sh
translations.zip

Go to the extracted directory and Execute the tonido.sh

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /usr/local/tonido/
root@linuxhelp:/usr/local/tonido# ./tonido.sh start
Starting Tonido Service:

root@linuxhelp:/usr/local/tonido# nohup: redirecting stderr to stdout

Open the browser and dive into http://< IP_address> :10001

Create an account for your Tonido server.

Now specify the type of access for your Folders and click “ Next”

Enable Folder Indexing and click Next



Open the browser and type the URL http://linuxhelp.tonidoid.com

Login to Tornido using the default credentials.

Now you can access the files and folders of your tonido server machine.

Move to the tonido server and create files and folder.

root@linuxhelp:/# cd testshare/
root@linuxhelp:/testshare# touch file{1..10}
root@linuxhelp:/testshare# ls
file1  file10  file2  file3  file4  file5  file6  file7  file8  file9

Check the newly created files and folder in the Tonido server.


To download a file, right click the file and then hit download.

Gallery View of files

To upload file, click upload and choose the file.


To view uploaded image file, click open.