[CentOS] Dropbox on CentOS 6?

[Sorin Srbu]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Niki Kovacs
> Sent: den 15 december 2014 07:28
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dropbox on CentOS 6?
> 
> I just tested this on a fresh installation of CentOS 6.6 (in
> VirtualBox). I downloaded the Fedora RPM (32-bit), installed it (using
> yum localinstall) and started it using the new Internet > Dropbox menu
> entry.
> 
> 1. A progression bar "Downloading Dropbox menu" appears.
> 
> 2. A second progression bar "Unpacking..." appears.
> 
> 3. Then nothing happens.
> 
> 4. 'ps aux' shows a busy 'dropbox' process.
> 
> YMMV, but this does *not* work on CentOS 6.6.

I did notice when I installed Dropbox for my mother on Linux Mint 17, that the program spent quite a while preparing a file list. 
It took the better part of an hour for barely 500 MB of file-data.

I'll try this in a virtual CentOS 6.6-install. I'll do an Arnie.

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//Sorin