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MichaelChapman
Explorer | Level 3
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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IanGrahamd
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Hmm. It's strange that you couldn't even install Dropbox on Centos 7 if you tried on Centos 8. I always thought Centos 8 was optimized for such operations and software. They are the most user-friendly OS I've tried as a developer. Dropbox is my favorite cloud, even though I continue to store everything the same in a 20 GB drive on Google. Maybe we will all be surprised by the future TuxCare in 2024 when Centos 7 will cease to exist. I think TuxCare will be cooler than anything we have tried so far. Try searching for information about this extended lifecycle support for CentOS 7.

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