For the life of me, I can't seem to get Dropbox installed in such a way that it links to my account and starts syncing files. I've tried the following:
sudo apt-get install dropboxsudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox- install from (1) .deb (2) CLI per
- installing from dropbox repo per this answer
A couple of these methods had me running ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd. I was expecting to see the url to link the account at some point, but every time I ran this command, there was no output, although the icon would pop up.
When I click the dropbox icon, it just says "Connecting..." even though it never queries me for credentials.
I even tried installing using ubuntu-tweak to see if that would work. I got a dependency error with that, so I couldn't really find out.
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I was not able to find a solution to the issue with Dropbox version 1.6.1. However, installing version 2.6.5 from this link did resolve the issue.
wget
tar xzvf dropbox-lnx.x86_64-2.6.5.tar.gzThe files will be removed from the archive and placed in the appropriate location for you. Keep in mind, this is not (as far as I know), available from the Ubuntu repos, so you'll need to do a few extra steps to set it up properly.
- Set up Dropbox as a service by following Alvin Row's instructions in this post
- If you want Dropbox to start on system start, add
bash -c "sleep 20s && ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd"to your Startup Applications. Alternatively, add the same command as an@reboottask in your crontab. You can try it without the sleep portion, but the icon didn't show up for me unless I included it.
