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Saturday, November 03, 2012

” Dropbox needs proprietary daemon ” solution

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).

3rd Party Repository: Dropbox

3rd Party Repository: Dropbox

This repository is available for: Lucid  Natty  Oneiric  Precise 
Title: Dropbox Nautilus integration
Description: Dropbox allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically.
Daily Build: no
Setup key with:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 5044912E
Setup repository with:
 sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu/ natty main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list' 
Setup package with:
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox