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Using Dropbox from command line in Fedora

Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by Dropbox Inc. that offers easy cloud storage on multiple platforms. Note that Dropbox is proprietary software, but offers a free account with up to 2 GB of storage [1] . Personally I've used Dropbox to sync files between PCs and also phones. In Fedora linux, you can install Dropbox from the RPM Fusion repository [2] . This is basically an installer and command line client script for the binary Dropbox daemon (application) that then has to be separately installed by each user. There is also a plugin for nautilus, the file manager: nautilus-dropbox. To install, simply issue on the command line as root (or sudo): dnf install dropbox nautilus-dropbox You could also download the program from Dropbox home page and install it manually [3] . I prefer using the Fedora package, then it will be nicely integrated also in Gnome on a desktop PC. The following instruction is how to install and configure on a headless PC, using only the comm