When people have been posting to a discussion thread using (literally) decades-old conventions for quote-and-reply, it really mucks up the read of that discussion when a message gets posted where the person replying decides to top-post his reply above all the others. Just sayin'....
Dick Thomas grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 30 December 2012 18:26, David Guntner <dav...@akamail.net> wrote: >> >> Just as an asside, dropbox.com has a Debian .deb package that can be >> downloaded from it, as well as a Python script that can be used to >> control it from the shell. >> >> That might be worth looking into as well.... > [moved to where it should have been....] > I've found the debian repo package doesn't work, it installs but when > run the daemon says it's install incorrectly and forwards me to the > dropbox website. this might of changed since I last tried but it > might be better to get it from their website Don't know about the Debian repo (the only one I could find was for nautilus-dropbox; and yes I know that you don't have to install Nautilus in order to use it :-) ). Since I use Dropbox to sync files for my other computers, I decided to install it on my Debian squeeze box and see how things went. I downloaded the .deb package from dropbox.com and installed: > # dpkg -i dropbox_1.4.0_amd64.deb > Selecting previously deselected package dropbox. > (Reading database ... 213217 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking dropbox (from dropbox_1.4.0_amd64.deb) ... > Setting up dropbox (1.4.0) ... > Please restart all running instances of Nautilus, or you will experience > problems. i.e. nautilus --quit > Dropbox installation successfully completed! You can start Dropbox from your > applications menu. > Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... > Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... > Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... > Processing triggers for man-db ... (Again, Nautilus is *not* needed in order to run Dropbox. It's just warning you to exit and restart it if you're using it.) So far, so good. Then I dropped back to my regular user account and started it up.... > $ dropbox start > Starting Dropbox... > The Dropbox daemon is not installed! > Run "dropbox start -i" to install the daemon > [davidg@janet Downloads]$ dropbox start -i > Starting Dropbox... > Dropbox is the easiest way to share and store your files online. Want to > learn more? Head to http://www.dropbox.com/ > > In order to use Dropbox, you must download the proprietary daemon. > Note: python-gpgme is not installed, we will not be able to verify binary > signatures. [y/n] ^C Ok, did a cntrl-C to get out and went back to root for a second to install the python-gpgme package, then restarted it again: > $ dropbox start -i > Starting Dropbox... > Dropbox is the easiest way to share and store your files online. Want to > learn more? Head to http://www.dropbox.com/ > > In order to use Dropbox, you must download the proprietary daemon. [y/n] y > Downloading Dropbox... 100% > Unpacking Dropbox... 100% > Dropbox isn't running! > Done! At this point, I checked and found that in my home directory were two directories, .dropbox and .dropbox-dist - the later being where it installed the "proprietary daemon" and supporting libraries. The .dropbox directory looks like it's got settings and a couple of named UNIX sockets. Checking the .deb package that had been installed earlier, I found that /usr/bin/dropbox is a python script that handle manipulating (and downloading if needed) that binary. Cool beans. Ok, so *now* to start it up! > $ dropbox start -i > To link this computer to a dropbox account, visit the following url: > https://www.dropbox.com/cli_link?host_id=6ff61b77b102c00f0dc930b88fd37563 Ok, not quite. :-) I posted that URL into my web browser, which asked me to login with my regular username/password. Once I had logged in, it asked me for my password one more time to link the computer to the account. It said all was now well. Tried to start it again.... > $ dropbox start -i > To link this computer to a dropbox account, visit the following url: > https://www.dropbox.com/cli_link?host_id=6ff61b77b102c00f0dc930b88fd37563 Hmm, I thought that was odd, given that I had already done that. Decided to check on its status.... > $ ps -ef|egrep dropbox > davidg 27179 1 4 11:03 ? 00:00:20 > /home/davidg/.dropbox-dist/dropbox Aha! So it *is* running, despite the odd message. Let's see if that's actually doing anything.... > $ dropbox status > Downloading 17 files (LAN) (1,498 kB/sec, 3 min left) So it *is* working! Huzzah! Checked, and sure enough, there's a Dropbox directory under my home directory.... > $ ls -la Dropbox > total 99396 > drwx------ 7 davidg users 4096 Dec 30 11:14 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 65 davidg users 4096 Dec 30 11:25 ../ > -rw-r--r-- 1 davidg users 151902 Nov 2 19:32 Battery_Meter_V2.1.gadget > -rw-r--r-- 1 davidg users 162459 Dec 15 23:02 Drives_Meter_V4.1.gadget > -rw-r--r-- 1 davidg users 29 Dec 30 11:08 .dropbox > drwxr-xr-x 2 davidg users 4096 Dec 30 11:14 .dropbox.cache/ > -rw-r--r-- 1 davidg users 246000 Jun 12 2012 Getting Started.pdf > drwxr-xr-x 3 davidg users 4096 Dec 30 11:09 Photos/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 davidg users 4096 Dec 30 11:09 Public/ Which is, in fact what I see when I check my dropbox directory on the Windows machines that I have linked up with it. So despite the rather odd message with the "dropbox start -i" command (which I now realize the -i is only needed the first time you start it up to install the daemon, and it just gives you that link message each time). I've noted the man page says there's a "dropbox autostart [y/n]" command available to have it start up the daemon automatically when you login. That could be handy. ;-) Well, for those people who have been talking about how to get Dropbox running on Debian, I hope they will have found my "mindless overkill" level of detail in this message to have been of some help. <grin> --Dave
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