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

5 Responses to “Dropbox client now available for Linux”

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1. BigVJohnson says:

   October 20, 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

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2. Danesh says:

   October 20, 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..

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3. demancey says:

   October 30, 2008 at 10:37 am

   make sure you have libnotify-devel installed as well…..a simple

   zypper in libnotify-devel

   should do just nicely

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4. kristle says:

   February 14, 2009 at 6:42 am

   Also make sure you have the gcc installed!

   zypper in gcc

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5. Baba says:

   July 16, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    ? what does that stand for
   I can’t get the following error:
   /nautilus-dropbox-0.6.1/./configure
   checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
   checking whether build environment is sane… yes
   checking for gawk… gawk
   checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
   checking for gcc… no
   checking for cc… no
   checking for cl.exe… no
   configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
   See `config.log’ for more details.

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