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Downloading and Installing obsutil

Download Links

Table 1 lists the download links of obsutil for different OSs.
Table 1 Download links of obsutil

OS

Software Package

SHA-256 Checksum

Windows (64-bit)

obsutil_windows64

8558d71b59e5bba4d4bdfdcdbf2aecc5075a044856a0e4fe11aca1ad830d8af0

Linux AMD (64-bit)

Linux x86 (64-bit)

obsutil_linux_amd64

1f9111dde3fd9e894978b3281159d385f13bfd24beaad34a9bfb959f10013905

Linux Arm (64-bit)

obsutil_linux_arm64

988ed59bafc63cb56541050b9c01fcf693c4b9076c8c618c905527846ccde601

macOS (64-bit)

obsutil_mac64

40fe3029d436c3fca1b771a4ba970a6f09c20b90d0e66bb8a2b883c25fd3dcfb

Getting Started with obsutil

You can download obsutil and then use it without installation. Methods of downloading obsutil vary depending on the OS type.

Make sure that your cloud server has been connected to the Internet, or the obsutil installation will fail.

Windows

  1. Download the obsutil package to your local PC.
  2. Decompress the software package.
  3. Use Command Prompt to go to the decompressed folder and run obsutil commands.

Linux

  1. Open the CLI and run the wget command to download obsutil.

    Linux AMD (64-bit) and Linux x86 (64-bit):

    wget https://obs-community-intl.obs.ap-southeast-1.myhuaweicloud.com/obsutil/current/obsutil_linux_amd64.tar.gz

    Linux Arm (64-bit):

    wget https://obs-community-intl.obs.ap-southeast-1.myhuaweicloud.com/obsutil/current/obsutil_linux_arm64.tar.gz
    • The URL after wget is the download link of the installation package, for which you do not need to make any adaptations. To download the package, just copy and run the whole wget command.
    • You can also download the obsutil package from a PC running Windows and then use a cross-platform transfer tool (such as WinSCP) to transfer the package to your Linux host.

  2. Run the following command in the directory where the obsutil package resides: 

    tar -xzvf obsutil_linux_amd64.tar.gz

  3. Run the following command to view the directory structure after decompression: x.x.x indicates the obsutil version. 

    ls -al

dr-x------ 2 root root    4096 Jan  5  2024 obsutil_linux_amd64_x.x.x
-rw------- 1 root root 3845484 Mar 27 17:05 obsutil_linux_amd64.tar.gz

  4. Go to the directory where obsutil resides. x.x.x indicates the obsutil version. 

    cd obsutil_linux_amd64_x.x.x

  5. Run the following command to grant the execute permissions for obsutil: 

    chmod 755 obsutil

    You must grant execute permissions for obsutil. Otherwise, the Permission denied error will be reported when you run obsutil commands.

  6. Continue to run the following command in the directory. If the version number of obsutil is returned, the installation is successful. 

    ./obsutil version

obsutil version:5.7.9, obssdk version:3.24.12
operating system:linux, arch:amd64

macOS

  1. Download the obsutil package to your local PC.
  2. Decompress the software package.
  3. Open the CLI, go to the directory where obsutil belongs, and run the following command to add execute permissions to obsutil: 

    chmod 755 obsutil

To improve the usability of obsutil, you can set obsutil commands as built-in commands by running the shell or batch script in the software package. This way, you can run obsutil commands in any directory. For details, see Setting obsutil Commands as Built-in Commands.

More Operations

If you need to use obsutil on a Huawei Cloud ECS, you can configure access over an intranet to reduce costs on traffic by referring to Using obsutil on a Linux ECS to Access OBS over an Intranet.

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