Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Installing Dropbox in Ubuntu


Courtesy: http://learningemperor.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/dropbox-needs-proprietary-daemon-solution/

  
  1. Go to 'Synaptic package manager' and  type 'python-gpgme' in the search bar and install it.
  2. Check whether your Ubuntu is 32 bit or 64 bit
    1. Go to terminal and type 'uname -a'
      1. Result for 32 bit:
        Linux discworld 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
      2. Result for 64 bit:
        Linux discworld 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  3. 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
  4. Extract the downloaded files in 'home' folder
  5. Go to 'home' folder and  press 'cntrl+h'  to view the hidden files
  6. Double click '.dropbox-dis'
  7. Double click 'dropboxd'
  8. Click 'run in Terminal', if it asks what to do with the file
  9. Set up your proxy settings and click 'reconnect'
  10. Create Dropbox account and enjoy sharing

2 comments:

  1. Bug1
    Problem: Every time I start my system, I will have to run 'dropboxd' in terminal and keep the terminal running for dropbox to work.
    OS: Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop edition 32 bit

    ReplyDelete
  2. Now I have given the path to dropbox file in the 'startup applications' list. :)

    ReplyDelete

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