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mstgrv's avatar
mstgrv
Helpful | Level 6
10 months ago

ARM binaries for Dropbox on Linux

At the moment, there are no ARM binaries for Dropbox on Linux. Are these planned at any point?

 

The use case I'm aiming for is runing Dropbox on a Raspberry Pi to act as a local LAN Sync server for other machines running macos.

  • Megan's avatar
    Megan
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

    Hey mstgrv, I hope you're doing well! 

     

    At the moment, we don't have any solid plans, or an ETA on ARM binaries for Linux OS. 

     

    However, keep in mind that we're always looking for ways to improve Dropbox & we regularly release new versions of our products.

     

    Your comments on this have been quite helpful, and I will do everything I can to ensure that your voice is heard. You can always use our "Share an idea" board, in order to suggest this as a feature request, in order for other users to upvote it. 

     

    I hope this clarifies!

    • Здравко's avatar
      Здравко
      Legendary | Level 20

      Megan wrote:

      ...

      Your comments on this have been quite helpful, and I will do everything I can to ensure that your voice is heard. You can always use our "Share an idea" board, in order to suggest this as a feature request, in order for other users to upvote it. 

      ...


      Hm...🤔 Probably that's why the same idea was there for years with thousands of likes/upvotes and finally was dropped/closed. ðŸ¤¦ Is there something changed in meantime?! Or maybe you have forgotten...

      That's it.

    • mstgrv's avatar
      mstgrv
      Helpful | Level 6

      Thanks for that. ARM binaries would be great to allow running Dropbox on a Raspberry Pi in general, but I've also now seen that Lan Sync doesn't work at on Macs with File Provider: https://help.dropbox.com/sync/lan-sync-overview

       

      That's my intended use case so the Lan Sync issue would need to be solved first I guess, is there an ETA for when that feature might be supported?

      • Jay's avatar
        Jay
        Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

        Hi mstgrv, currently, there isn't any information on if LAN sync would return for Macs using File Provider.