This is necessary because the Dropbox CLI expects ~/.dropbox-dist to contain your Dropbox installation: dropbox-dist that points to your Dropbox installation path.
Then, in your home directory, make a symbolic link named. Use this command to make it executable: chmod +x ~/dropbox.py Now you will have a file called dropbox.py, the Dropbox CLI, in your home directory. To download it to your home directory, run these commands: cd ~
Install Dropbox CLIĭropbox also includes a command line interface (CLI) that you may want to install so that you can configure your Dropbox client. Now the Dropbox client is running as a service and will start automatically when your server boots. Then run this command to configure the service to start when your server boots: Now Dropbox is ready to be started as a service. Save and exit the file by pressing Ctrl-x, then y, then Enter. etc/default/dropbox DROPBOX_USERS=" sammy" For example, if your username is “sammy”, it should look like this: Create the file and open it for editing with this command:Īdd a line that specifies that DROPBOX_USERS is equal to your system username. The script expects the /etc/default/dropbox file to contain a list of system users that will run Dropbox.
Next, make the script executable with this command: sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/dropbox To save yourself the trouble, you can use this command to download one to /etc/init.d/dropbox: To start Dropbox as a service, you’ll need create a script. The next step is to set up some scripts so that Dropbox will run as a service, so that you don’t need to be logged in for the client to keep running. Press Ctrl-C to quit running Dropbox for now. This is where it will store your synchronized Dropbox files. You should now have a directory in your home directory called “Dropbox”. Now your Dropbox account is linked with the client. This is where Steps 3 and 4 come in.Link success output:This computer is now linked to Dropbox. Note: Dropbox needs to be restarted to start synchronizing again. This will happen when a user logs back onto the computer. However, if a user is already logged on to the computer then Dropbox won’t get restarted, so they might think that their data is being synchronized when it is not. Since many users rarely restart their computer they could possibly go for days and days thinking that Dropbox is running. Deploying will stop any currently running Dropbox processes which, obviously, stops any Dropbox synchronizations that are taking place. If Dropbox is already installed it will simply upgrade to the version you deploy. When this step is executed on your target computers it will install Dropbox in %ProgramFiles%\Dropbox (on 32-bit systems) or %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Dropbox on 64-bit. Dropbox provides the parameter, /S to make the installation run silently. You can see that we point to the offline installer provided by Dropbox. Step 1 is what is known as an Install step.
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