Installing Dropbox on Mageia Linux

Dropbox is a commercial cloud-based online file storage service. A Basic account provides 2GB of space at no charge. To begin installing Dropbox, go to their website and create an account.

Step 1. On your computer, install the Dropbox package.

$ sudo urpmi dropbox
This installs the Dopbox files and installs wget (if not already installed).

Step 2. Begin the Dropbox installation by downloading and installing the proprietary daemon.

$ dropbox start -i
After the daemon downloads, Dropbox will open a web browser to the Dropbox login page.

Step 3. Using your account information, you may log in. Dropbox will now take you to your personal Dropbox page and create the directory ~/Dropbox on your computer and open your file manager to that directory. Now, close all the open Dropbox windows.

Step 4. Make Dropbox run automatically when you log in.

$ dropbox autostart y

If you don't want it to run automatically, you can use the start and stop commands from the command line.

Setting Options
Use the Dropbox GUI to select any desired options. General option are available on your Dropbox homepage.

There are several Dropbox command-line interface commands, but most options and fine-grained control is only available from the GUI utility:

Note: use dropbox help to view usage for a specific command.

autostart automatically start Dropbox at login
exclude ignores/excludes a directory from syncing
filestatus current sync status of one or more files
help provide help
lansync enables or disables LAN sync
ls list current sync status of directory
proxy set proxy settings for Dropbox
puburl get public url of a file
running return whether Dropbox is running
sharelink get a shared link for a file
start start dropboxd
status get current status of the dropboxd
stop stop dropboxd
throttle set bandwidth limits for Dropbox
update download latest version of Dropbox
version print version information for Dropbox

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