Dropbox client now available for Linux
The folks at dropbox released the much anticipated Linux client yesterday. Currently it’s designed as a nautilus extension. Support for Konqueror should be available soon.
The nautilus extension is opensource but the dropboxd daemon which keeps the files in sync is closed source.
Packages for Ubuntu and Fedora are available for download. For other distros you’ll need to compile from source. Go to the download page.
I managed to get dropbox working on my openSUSE 11 running KDE. It’s quite simple actually. You need to install the nautilus and nautilus-devel pakages before compiling the source,
1. install nautilus
root#> zypper in nautilus
2. install nautilus-devel
root#> zypper in nautilus-devel
3. compile the dropbox source. Make sure to be in the source folder first.
root#> ./configure
root#> make
root#> make install
4. start nautilus or the dropboxd daemon to initiate the dropbox client.
root#> nautilus
or
root#> cd /home/[user]/.dropbox-dist/
root#> ./dropboxd
BigVJohnson | October 20th, 2008 at 4:00 am #
Great post! Only problem is, I’m a techy, but havent had my hands all that deep in linux, and I’m quickly falling in love with openSUSE 11, but I am running the gnome, and I’ve tried a few of your steps and I’m assuming that since you used KDE, that some of the commands are different. Might you be able to translate some of these steps into gnome commands? I would be most greatfull, DropBox on openSUSE 11 would be the ultimate for me. Thanks
Danesh | October 20th, 2008 at 8:22 am #
John,
The steps are the same as above. You can skip the nautilus lines as it’s already installed in GNOME.
One you have dine the configure, make and install, log out and log in again to start the dorpbox daemon.
Hope that helped..
demancey | October 30th, 2008 at 10:37 am #
make sure you have libnotify-devel installed as well…..a simple
zypper in libnotify-devel
should do just nicely