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jackbetz
Joined: 15 Apr 2009 Posts: 11
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Posted: Sat 27 Feb 2010, 20:09 Post subject:
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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?
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stifiling
Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 388
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Posted: Sun 18 Apr 2010, 03:55 Post subject:
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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.
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darwinev0lved
Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 83
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Posted: Sat 19 Jun 2010, 06:51 Post subject:
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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.
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darwinev0lved
Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 83
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Posted: Sat 19 Jun 2010, 06:57 Post subject:
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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...
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quemazon
Joined: 24 Aug 2010 Posts: 4
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Posted: Tue 24 Aug 2010, 13:35 Post subject:
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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?
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quemazon
Joined: 24 Aug 2010 Posts: 4
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Posted: Wed 25 Aug 2010, 08:19 Post subject:
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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.
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sturu2
Joined: 25 Aug 2010 Posts: 1
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Posted: Wed 25 Aug 2010, 22:08 Post subject:
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How do I go about getting a user id and password to download the .pet installation?
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sullysat

Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 367 Location: San Antonio, TX
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Posted: Wed 25 Aug 2010, 22:31 Post subject:
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sturu2 wrote: | How do I go about getting a user id and password to download the .pet installation? |
I'm not sure where you're trying to download from, but just about every puppy mirror with a password uses
Name = Puppy
Password = Linux
Try that,
Sully
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DPUP5520
Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813
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Posted: Fri 17 Jun 2011, 21:19 Post subject:
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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)
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oligin10
Joined: 17 Jul 2010 Posts: 194 Location: Buckeye State, USA
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Posted: Wed 10 Aug 2011, 01:52 Post subject:
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Hi Dpup, just tried to install this pet, and shows missing lib libnautilus-extension.so.1. Any suggestions on this? Thanks in advance, Rob
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DPUP5520
Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813
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Posted: Mon 31 Oct 2011, 18:21 Post subject:
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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.
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DL62
Joined: 08 Nov 2011 Posts: 10
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Posted: Thu 10 Nov 2011, 12:42 Post subject:
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DPUP5520 wrote: | 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. |
When I run this I get 'Failed to execute child process "dropbox" (No such file or directory)
Can anyone help on this, please.
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DPUP5520
Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813
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Posted: Thu 10 Nov 2011, 18:48 Post subject:
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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.
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DL62
Joined: 08 Nov 2011 Posts: 10
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Posted: Fri 11 Nov 2011, 04:21 Post subject:
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DPUP5520 wrote: | 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. |
Thanks for the reply. It is Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 running from a cdrom.
Dropbox appears in the menu but produces the error message when started.
Sorry but don't know what the last two questions mean.
I have now got Dropbox working by a different method and download so not an urgent problem.
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DPUP5520
Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 813
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Posted: Fri 11 Nov 2011, 05:38 Post subject:
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DL62 wrote: | DPUP5520 wrote: | 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. |
Thanks for the reply. It is Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 running from a cdrom.
Dropbox appears in the menu but produces the error message when started.
Sorry but don't know what the last two questions mean.
I have now got Dropbox working by a different method and download so not an urgent problem. |
Glad you got it working, I asked if you had Python installed because that version of dropbox depends on it, I wasn't able to recreate the error you got no matter what I tried, I did like 6 fresh installs and every time it worked fine as long as python was installed.
If anyone else has the above stated problem with the pet please let me know and what the setup is so I can sort out any problems.
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