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fadi's avatar
fadi
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

Need help installing Dropbox on a Raspberry Pi

Hello guys, 

I'm trying to install dropbox on my RPI 3 ModelB with Raspbian OS. I'm running the following commands.

pip install dropbox

sudo pip install dropbox

The dropbox gets successfully installed, but then I can't find it anywhere.

I want to use dropbox to synch a file using Python.

Any thoughts?

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Linux
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    7 years ago

    You're right of course, Rich, I forgot that Raspberry doesn't run on a standard processor, and there is definitely no ARM implementation of the Dropbox app.

    fadi, after glancing at some YouTube videos, it appears they're either using code from Github to directly upload files to the site without the use of an app, or using a service which emulates an x86 environment, to which the desktop app can be installed.

    Hope that helps!

     

  • TimTheEnchanter's avatar
    TimTheEnchanter
    New member | Level 2
    5 years ago

    I found this thread almost first thing when trying to get Dropbox to work with my Raspberry Pi 4, so I decided to post the work around I found here.

    rclone

    It syncs with a great number of cloud platforms, but most importantly it had a GUI interaface available in the Raspbain repo. Once I found it, it only took a minute to get my Dropbox synced up to my pi. I've had some trouble open some files directly from the mounted dropbox, but it does sync properly. rclone's documentation was fairly clear and easy to follow too.

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
    7 years ago
    Hi there, currently the only supported distros are Ubuntu and Fedora, so the amount of info we can provide is limited.
     
    Does the Dropbox desktop application appear in the menu bar? Are you instead doing a headless installation of the app? Have you tried doing an advanced reinstall?
     
    Keep me posted!
    • Rich's avatar
      Rich
      Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
      7 years ago

      It's not just a distribution issue; it's mainly the processor. The Raspberry Pi uses an ARM processor, and Dropbox isn't compiled for the ARM processor.

      There are no official Dropbox clients that will run on an RPi.

      • fadi's avatar
        fadi
        New member | Level 2
        7 years ago

        Hi Rich, I don't think so. I've seen videos for the Dropbox running on RPI. I'm not sure why i'm not able to do so though. Thanks

    • fadi's avatar
      fadi
      New member | Level 2
      7 years ago

      Hi Jay,

      Thanks for the reply. I can't see the Dropbox application in the menu bar. When I try to run the command as per the link you've shared I get this.

      dropbox: command not found

       Any thoughts?

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