![]() It’ll create a folder Dropbox in your home directory where it’ll sync everything to. When it’s first run it will give you a URL containing a unique code to visit – this can be done from any browser anywhere (I suspect you won’t have a windowing system and a GUI browser on your Linux server, and you don’t need it) – once visited you’ll be prompted to allow your server to sync with your Dropbox account. There’s a chance dropboxd will quit with an error on first run complaining about dependencies/shared objects – in this case try the following, which should install the libraries it needs, before starting the daemon again: sudo apt install libglapi-mesa libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-present0 libxcb-sync1 libxshmfence1 libxxf86vm1 Start the daemon like this, with & at the end so it returns you to the shell and lets the daemon run in the background: ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd & ![]() ![]() Bear in mind since the directory name begins with a period, you’re not going to see it with regular ls but it’ll show up with the -a option. This will drop the Dropbox daemon into a folder. Go to your home folder ( cd) and run the below in your shell to download the Dropbox Linux daemon (correct at the time of writing if you have any issues go to Dropbox’s Linux install page and skip to the headless instructions): cd ~ & wget -O - "" | tar xzf. Dropbox headless install via command line Here’s how I set it up, and this should work regardless of whether your server is at home on your internal network or out there on the big bad internet running WordPress □ 1. Together with a 30-day version history of all files even on its free plan (180 days on pro), it functions as a great cloud backup solution. Dropbox is my favourite cloud storage provider as it’s the easiest to install & administrate remotely on a Linux server. ![]()
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