I recently started using dropbox on linux initially it said it needs a
proprietary daemon ( you also need nautilus etc ) i searched on line
and after going through blogs and forums found this solution
1) Download the daemon tool provided by the Dropbox
32bit: http://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86
64bit: http://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64
2)extract the files to home folder etc
note : the extracted files fare hidden so press cntrl + h to view them
3)Thirdly, use your shell to call the Dropbox daemon:
/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
After you created your account, and linked your computer to the Dropbox account, you find a ne folder in your home directory named Dropbox. This is your sync folder.
Now you can create a system link to your autostart folder for starting Dropbox at startup.
For KDE it looks like that:
ln -s ~/.dropbox/dropboxd ~/.kde/Autostart/dropboxd
In KDE 4.3 the autostart folder has moved. You can either link it system-wide (not recommended):
ln -s ~/.dropbox/dropboxd /usr/share/autostart/dropboxd
or user-specific:
ln -s ~/.dropbox/dropboxd ~/.kde4/share/autostart/dropboxd
Both works fine.
Now Dropbox works fine with any Linux you like (and use).
1) Download the daemon tool provided by the Dropbox
32bit: http://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86
64bit: http://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64
2)extract the files to home folder etc
note : the extracted files fare hidden so press cntrl + h to view them
3)Thirdly, use your shell to call the Dropbox daemon:
/home/user/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
After you created your account, and linked your computer to the Dropbox account, you find a ne folder in your home directory named Dropbox. This is your sync folder.
Now you can create a system link to your autostart folder for starting Dropbox at startup.
For KDE it looks like that:
ln -s ~/.dropbox/dropboxd ~/.kde/Autostart/dropboxd
In KDE 4.3 the autostart folder has moved. You can either link it system-wide (not recommended):
ln -s ~/.dropbox/dropboxd /usr/share/autostart/dropboxd
or user-specific:
ln -s ~/.dropbox/dropboxd ~/.kde4/share/autostart/dropboxd
Both works fine.
Now Dropbox works fine with any Linux you like (and use).
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