Unable to install the desktop app on Fedora 41.

Hey jonbjoseph, welcome to the Dropbox Community!

If you're having trouble installing the Dropbox application on your Linux computer, take a look at this article.

Can you let me know if it helps and how it goes?

If not, let us know where you get stuck and we'll be happy to help.

Restarting the device is always a good first troubleshooting step if you come across that same issue again.

Thanks in advance!

Hi Hannah,

I've looked at the article you suggested I read.  However, I'm spinning my wheels trying to figure out how to get the Dropbox GUI app that allows me to selectively sync.  I can run the dropbox daemon and have the command line app for starting/stopping the daemon.  But the daemon is attempting to download all my files on dropbox.  I don't have room on my PC to download all my dropbox files. 

Bottom Line: I need selective sync capability.

Thanks for your help.

Hi Jay 

You pointed me directly to the solution!  The 'dropbox exclude add' Linux command is what I should have used.  I had blinders on thinking that there was a GUI dropbox app (like what I had installed on Linuxmint 21.3 and Windows 11).  So I have to apologize to Hannah, since Hannah directed me to the page with dropbox Linux commands.

Thanks!

I'm happy to see you were able to figure this out, jonbjoseph!

If you need anything else, please let us know.

Have a great weekend!

Hi Hannah,

I'm having the same problem and I'm trying to use the linux commands, but it's not working for me. Since I'm very new to Linux, could you please help me with the command line syntax to exclude a directory. What I'm doing is not working. I go to the terminal inside dropbox and then I type 'dropbox exclude add [~/my folder]'. 

If I type 'exclude add [/my folder]' I receive a error message saying that the command doesn't exist. 

Help please... Thank you!

Hey Peace of Wine! Do you mind sharing a screenshot with me of what you see exactly, so that I can take a look?

Please ignore the typo in the middle. Like I said I'm very new to linux ( 2months). "pastas do sync" is the folder I want to exclude from being sync by dropbox. I'm not sure the Cli is correctly written, because as you can see, nothing happens. Thank you for your help. I have also tried to paste the all path. 

You're definitely on the right track.  Go up 1 directory level to your HOME directory (cd command) and then try changing your 2nd command as follows:

dropbox exclude add Dropbox/pastas

Note, I'm assuming that the Dropbox directory is in the the default location (~/Dropbox). Then you can run:

dropbox exclude list (or just:  dropbox exclude) to confirm that the directory is excluded.  I run dropbox status, when I log into my account just to check to see that I'm 'Up to date'.

Not that it matters, but I'm just curious, what Linux are you running (eg ubuntu 2404, Fedora 41)?  I'm running Fedora 41.

It worked! Thank you so much for your help! Finally I can sync my files!😃🤩. I'm running Fedora 41. I tried Mint which is also very good, but I preferred the clean aesthetics of Fedora, and also because according with the experts is one step ahead of the others on how it works. I tried Ubuntu and I didn't like it at all, my oldest laptop, which is from 2012 and my guinea pig was even slower than with windows. 

All my 3 computers are now running Fedora 41 and I'm very happy. And it made me realize how bad Windows is. I thought one of my laptops had the battery damaged until I made the change. It was Windows that was draining the battery. Now it lasts 6 hours, not 1.30!

Once again thank you for your help. I can now wait, seated and peacefully for the answer from Dropbox support on why the app is not working as it should. 😁