dropbox install problems centos 7.6

This may be common knowledge now, but for any other newbies searching the forums, you can now use DropBox through FlatPak.

Go here to enable FlatHub: https://flatpak.org/setup/CentOS/

Then here to download the FlatPak DropBox:  https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.dropbox.Client

I removed Centos and then I installed Fedora 29, when installing dropbox there were also dependency problems, later I followed the indications of the requirements to use dropbox (Reinstall Fedora but Xfce, and I installed the GTK, Glib and Nautilus add-ons) but the problems with dependencies to moment of installation continued.

Finally with all the requirements met I was able to install Dropbox with the following command:

$ dnf -y install nautilus-dropbox

The problems as I understand were:
-KDE Plasma Desktop. Both CentOS and Fedora.
-The installation from a rpm package.

My initial post was incomplete. The FlatPak version requires an ext4 partition. To set this up:

1) partition a drive to ext4 (I had to do this at install)
2) make drive mount with each session:
i) create reference folder: mkdir /home/user_name/dropbox_drive
ii) identify name of drive (sda3): ls /dev/hd*
iii) edit hard-drive list: sudo gedit /etc/fstab
iv) add line: /dev/sda3 /home/user_name/dropbox_drive ext4 defaults 1 2

Further update: CentOS offers ext4 as a partition format option for the home directory, so there is no need to create and mount a separate partition.

Thank you very much.
This works on my CentOS7 with an external ext4 drive!

To launch at startup:
/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=/app/bin/dropbox-app com.dropbox.Client
(I just searched for DropBox in the root directory to find this)
To access Startup Applications in CentOS:
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/session-properties.desktop
Change the NoDisplay parameter from true to false
'gnome-session-properties' is  'Startup Applications', you can search for them in the launcher

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MathUHenry  escreveu:

To summarize:

1) Format home directory as ext4 at CentOS 7 installation (to be compatible with DropBox)

2) Enable FlatHub: https://flatpak.org/setup/CentOS/

3) Download the FlatPak DropBox:  https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.dropbox.Client

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Funcionou Perfeitamente!! Obrigado!

I don't think DropBox have ever answered the question "Why does it have to be ext4?"

This requirement is basically ridiculous.  POSIX is POSIX.  An application should not care.

Going to lose another soon :(