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== Configure Dropbox as a Service on NixOS ==
== Configure Dropbox as a Service on NixOS ==
As of right now ( 2019-01-02 ) there is no dropbox module in nixpkgs, however [https://discourse.nixos.org/t/using-dropbox-on-nixos/387/6 peterhoeg at discourse.nixos.org] shared the service code he is using:
As of right now (19 Jun 2022) there is no dropbox module in nixpkgs, however [https://discourse.nixos.org/t/using-dropbox-on-nixos/387/6 peterhoeg at discourse.nixos.org] shared the service code he is using:


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A [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/85699 pull request] has been created to add Dropbox as a Nixos module which builds on this code snippet (21 Apr 2020). As of 19 Jun 2022, this has not been accepted and has not seen activity in 2 years.
== Alternative Open Source Client ==
There is also an open source alternative called Maestral: [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/python-modules/maestral/default.nix maestral] as CLI and [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/networking/maestral-qt/default.nix maestral-qt] for a GUI.


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