Dropbox for Linux...? HELP!!

SazM030306

What on earth does this mean?

Dropbox for Linux

Download the correct Dropbox installation for your Linux environment
We recommend downloading the "x86" package for your distribution.

• Ubuntu (x86_64 .deb)
• Ubuntu (x86 .deb)
• Fedora (x86_64 .rpm)
• Fedora (x86 .rpm)
• Compile from Source (tar.bz2)

Choose "Compile from Source" to manually build the installer if your distribution isn't listed above. Compiling instructions are in the README file included in the tarball.
Can I run Dropbox on a Linux server?

If you use Linux from the command line only, follow the command line interface (CLI) instructions contributed by the Dropbox community. Once you have installed Dropbox for the command line, you can install and use Dropbox's CLI script to view your Dropbox status.
How does it work?

The installer will perform the following actions:

• Install the open-source Dropbox plug-in for the Nautilus File Manager
• Adds Dropbox to your default repository for automatic upgrades.
• Downloads and installs the Dropbox binary.

To prevent Dropbox from adding the Dropbox repositories to your default sources list, use the following command in Terminal:
$ touch /etc/default/dropbox-repo
System Requirements

The Dropbox Nautilus installer is supported on x86 (32 bit) and x86_64 (64 bit) versions of Ubuntu 8.04 and higher and Fedora 9 and higher. People have also reported success building from source on different versions of Gentoo, Arch Linux, OpenSUSE, and Debian.
Dropbox needs the following software to work in the GNOME desktop environment:

• GTK 2.12 or higher
• GLib 2.14 or higher
• Nautilus 2.16 or higher
• Libnotify 0.4.4 or higher

What is Nautilus?

Nautilus is a file manager for GNOME Linux desktop environments, analogous to Windows Explorer for Windows or Finder for Mac OS X. Dropbox uses Nautilus as a user interface to display what is happening in your Dropbox.
When you install Dropbox for Linux, you are really installing two major components:

• dropboxd is a daemon process that makes sure your $HOME/Dropbox directory is properly synced with your other computers and our secure backend.
• nautilus-dropbox is a Nautilus plug-in offered on the GPL open-source license. nautilus-dropbox offers a graphical user interface (GUI) layer over the data dropboxd provides.

Can I add Dropbox to my package repository?

Yes! We have repositories for Ubuntu and Fedora. If you use the .deb or .rpm packages above, the package will automatically add Dropbox to your repositories. If you'd like to do this manually, use the following directions.
For those of you using the Ubuntu apt repositories you should be able to run the following in Terminal:
sudo apt-get update;sudo apt-get upgrade nautilus-dropbox We have also authenticated our Ubuntu repositories. Please run sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 5044912E to install Dropbox's public key.
Fedora users who would prefer to use yum to install nautilus-dropbox here's what you need to do:

1. Create a file in /etc/yum.repos.d called dropbox.repo with this text:
   [Dropbox]
   name=Dropbox Repository
   baseurl=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/$releasever/
   gpgkey=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc
2. Run sudo yum install nautilus-dropbox. It may ask you to confirm a gpg key. Approve and you'll be good to go.

Want to contribute?

Are you a programmer? nautilus-dropbox is released on a GPL license. This means you can develop your own user interface for Dropbox using the same API protocols used in nautilus-dropbox code. The protocol is a very simple RPC-like, UTF8 string-based protocol.
That's awesome! However, due to legal requirements, we can only accept patches into our release if you release your patch into the public domain (similar to the way GNU does things). Don't worry, we'll still credit you in the CONTRIBUTORS file included with every package.

All I want is dropbox LOL Can anyone explain this in English??

debitcardmayhem

Which version of Linux have you got

SazM030306

It's linpus linux light... v1.0.21.E

The_JinJ

If your not sure of the version of Linux you have open a command prompt and type

uname -a

The_JinJ

If it is Linpus it will be either
Fedora (x86_64 .rpm) or Fedora (x86 .rpm)
depending if you have a 32 or 64 bit machine/install

SazM030306

Is this what you mean..

[user@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.23.9lw #105 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jun 27 18:56:59 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[user@localhost ~]$

debitcardmayhem

I would imagine then you need the fedora x86.rpm but I am not sure on Linpus but it should be based on fedora. Download
that and it should automatically install if you double click on the downloaded file.

The_JinJ

It is indeed 32bit, based on Fedora
https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/nautilus-dropbox-0.6.9-1.fedora.i386.rpm&src=refreg

SazM030306

Thank you all!! It seems to have done it... I just need to find where it is now to launch it lol xxx