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MichaelChapman
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5 years ago

Dropbox installation on Centos 7

Hello Redhat has removed long term support for Centos 8 so I have moved back to Centos 7 (most of our customers are on Centos 7 or RHEL7). I want to use DropBox and I can partially install it, but w...
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Walter
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5 years ago
Hey MichaelChapman, sorry to hear you're having issues with this.

If your device is meeting our minimum requirements as outlined here, you should be able to install our desktop app normally. 

Could you have a look and let me know what you find?

Thanks!
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    MichaelChapman
    Explorer | Level 3
    5 years ago

    Hi Walter,

    Centos 7 does not comply with the minimum requirements. It used to work, but not with the latest Dropbox daemon.

     

    /home/****/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-135.4.4221/dropbox: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not found (required by /home/****/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-135.4.4221/libdropbox_core.so)

     

    So the libc.so.6 file is there, but it returns glibc version 2.17 when queried.

    Even if I LD_PRELOAD an overloaded version of the function gnu_get_libc_version() to return 2.18, it still fails.

     

    Many large companies have regressed back to Centos 7 because of the early end of life of Centos 8. Centos 7 remains on long term support until June 30, 2024. 

     

    Is there any way to get Dropbox working with glibc version 2.17?

     

    Thanks

    Michael

     

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