Install Dropbox in CentOS 7
This website has a nice overview over the installation process. First, you need to
sudo yum install libgnomeand then download the Dropbox Fedora (.rpm) package from Dropbox and install it with
sudo rpm -ivh nautilus-dropbox[...].rpmThen you can start Dropbox and log in with your accound details.
Repair package manager yum
If you use yum (e.g yum update) after Dropbox installation, you will
probably encounter an error that a certain .xml file could not be found.
This blog entry describes the problem:
The Package is made for Fedora and Fedora has a different release cycle
than CentOS. But the package repository configuration of Dropbox
/etc/yum.repos.d/dropbox.repo uses the variable $releasever, which
is different for Fedora and CentOS.
To solve this problem you have to replace the line
baseurl=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/$releasever/
with
baseurl=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/21/
The number 21 is just the newest Fedora version supported by Dropbox.
Yo can look for the current supported versions on their website.
Run Dropbox as a service
In order to have Dropbox available right after boot without loggin in, it has to be declared a service.
[TODO] Find out how?