Windows WSL2 and Dropbox

wsl-dropbox.md

This was only tested on Fedora 35 with systemd but should work on any WSL distribution that uses systemd.

Install the Dropbox headless client:

$ cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -

Install the Dropbox manager script into your ~/bin folder:

$ wget -O ~/bin/dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/dropbox.py
$ chmod +x ~/bin/dropbox

Create a systemd unit to start Dropbox automatically (somehow dropbox autostart has no effect):

$ mkdir -p ~/.local/share/systemd/user
$ cat > ~/.local/share/systemd/user/dropbox.service <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Dropbox Daemon
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/home/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
ExecStop=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

$ systemctl enable --user dropbox
$ systemctl start --user dropbox

Additionally, configure the download/upload limit:

$ dropbox throttle unlimited unlimited

You can use $USER instead YOUR_USERNAME_HERE and maybe needs escape $MAINPID.

BTW, user level not worked for me, this one worked: https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/install-dropbox-headless-ubuntu-server

But with some changes like the path to dropboxd