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jackbetz · Joined: 15 Apr 2009 Posts: 11

Same thing happened to me yesterday. I remembered that Crunchbang Linux Wiki had some instructions on doing a generic install and a link to a zipped .dropbox-dist. I installed that and made a fake nautilus script in my-applications to run rox instead. Hopefully dropbox won't try to update istelf again. Did you get a ,dropbox-dist.new folder created as well when the update ran?

stifiling · Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 388

i had success using the .pet file by first creating the "blank document file" named ".dropbox-dist-new" in /root

this keeps the program from updating and creating the .dropbox-dist-new folder.

darwinev0lved · Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 83

Has anybody managed to get it working in Puppy 5.01?

I followed Summer's instructions but when I tried to run the dropboxd I got :

locale.Error: unsupported locale settings.
My locale is en_GB

Thanks for any help!

Oh - I also tried to use the ubuntu.deb but all I got was a python installer - and I have no idea how to make that work.

darwinev0lved · Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 83

Ah damn it, now I feel like an idiot!
Anyways - changed the locale to use UTF-8 (no idea if this matters or not, I suspect not). Had to restart X-server, of course and now the dropboxd command works.
Well - very pleased that it works of course! But why (when I had tried restarting X) did it only start to work now!
So, ignore my previous post...

quemazon · Joined: 24 Aug 2010 Posts: 4

I have installed the .pet and run dropboxd, but it doesn't work. The tray icon comes up with an X through it, and I get a screen saying that it can't connect. There is a tab for adjusting the proxy setting, but I don't use a proxy. My wireless internet connection is working fine.

From the install instructions on the dropbox site, I see something about composing an URL using the host ID and a dopbox CLI, none of which I see mentioned here. Is any of that necessary for this .pet?

quemazon · Joined: 24 Aug 2010 Posts: 4

To answer my own question, I was using an old laptop and hadn't bothered to set the system clock. It was more than a year off, which was messing up the SSL certificate. Works fine now.

sturu2 · Joined: 25 Aug 2010 Posts: 1

How do I go about getting a user id and password to download the .pet installation?

sullysat · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 367 Location: San Antonio, TX

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813

Didn't wanna start up a new thread so i thought i'd just bump this old one with a new version of dropbox 0.6.7 (need to have a savefile cause it downloads the actual binary once you start it up thats why its so small)

oligin10 · Joined: 17 Jul 2010 Posts: 194 Location: Buckeye State, USA

Hi Dpup, just tried to install this pet, and shows missing lib libnautilus-extension.so.1. Any suggestions on this? Thanks in advance, Rob

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813

I just made a new dropbox pet for 0.7.0 and no-one should be having any problems with the libnautilus-extension being missing as it is built-in to the new pet so here ya go.

DL62 · Joined: 08 Nov 2011 Posts: 10

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813

what version of puppy are you trying to run this on? are you running it from the menu entry? is it a fresh install, frugal, full?

edit: do you have python installed from the repos?

I just booted up a fresh install that had python built in and installed dropbox and it ran fine and downloaded/installed the daemon.

DL62 · Joined: 08 Nov 2011 Posts: 10

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813