How To Install Dropbox 2.4.7 On The Most Popular Linux Systems, Including, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Mageia And Derivates

Hello Linux Geeksters. As you already know, Dropbox is a service that allows users to store their data on the internet, in order to use it later. And it comes with a client, for syncronising the folders from the remote server with ones from the local computer.

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The latest stable version available is Dropbox 24.7, which brings a few fixes, to the previous version.

How To Install Dropbox 2.4.7 On Linux SystemsThe Dropbox client is not available via third party repository, but it can be easily installed on Linux systems from sources. Follow this instructions for a successful installation.

How to install Dropbox 2.4.7 on 32 bit Linux systems:

$ wget -c dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-2.4.7.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf dropbox-lnx.x86-2.4.7.tar.gz
$ cd .dropbox-dist
$ sudo chmod +x dropboxd
$ ./dropboxd

How to install Dropbox 2.4.7 on 64 bit Linux systems:

$ wget -c https://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-2.2.9.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf dropbox-lnx.x86-2.2.9.tar.gz
$ cd .dropbox-dist
$ sudo chmod +x dropboxd
$ ./dropboxd

Since the installation instructions are generical, they work on the most popular Linux systems, including: Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Pear OS, Elementary OS, KWheezy, Crunchbang, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, ROSA Desktop, OpenMandriva, Arch Linux and many others.

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