Installing Dropbox on Puppy Linux

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#21 Post by quemazon »

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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#22 Post by sturu2 »

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

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#23 Post by sullysat »

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,
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#24 Post by DPUP5520 »

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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#25 Post by oligin10 »

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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#26 Post by DPUP5520 »

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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#27 Post by DL62 »

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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#28 Post by DPUP5520 »

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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#29 Post by DL62 »

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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#30 Post by DPUP5520 »

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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#31 Post by DL62 »

OK thanks.

A really stupid question, but can you point me to something which explains what Python is and how to install it.

Just moved from Windows and only been using Puppy for a few weeks!

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#32 Post by DPUP5520 »

Python is a programming language like perl or ruby and it can be installed from the puppy package manager.

http://www.python.org/
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#33 Post by sfeeley »

I have now got Dropbox working by a different method and download so not an urgent problem.
Can you explain or link to your other method? It would be nice to have different dropbox options all on this thread.

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#34 Post by DL62 »

sfeeley wrote:
I have now got Dropbox working by a different method and download so not an urgent problem.
Can you explain or link to your other method? It would be nice to have different dropbox options all on this thread.
I went to http://portablelinuxapps.org/network/dropbox and downloaded Dropbox 1.1.43. Then I right clicked, chose Permissions and made executable. Then I made a shortcut on the Desktop which I can click when I want to use Dropbox.

Please excuse my non-geek approach but I am just an ordinary consumer new to Puppy after 30 odd years of Windows!

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#35 Post by DaveS »

DL62 wrote:
sfeeley wrote:
I have now got Dropbox working by a different method and download so not an urgent problem.
Can you explain or link to your other method? It would be nice to have different dropbox options all on this thread.
I went to http://portablelinuxapps.org/network/dropbox and downloaded Dropbox 1.1.43. Then I right clicked, chose Permissions and made executable. Then I made a shortcut on the Desktop which I can click when I want to use Dropbox.

Please excuse my non-geek approach but I am just an ordinary consumer new to Puppy after 30 odd years of Windows!
I use pretty much the same system most of the time except I make the link to /root/Startup, that way dropbox starts at boot and runs in the background all the time.
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#36 Post by sfeeley »

As suggested, I got the portableapp of dropbox http://portablelinuxapps.org/network/dropbox

and then followed this tip
I use pretty much the same system most of the time except I make the link to /root/Startup, that way dropbox starts at boot and runs in the background all the time.
But dropbox isn't starting automatically when I boot. It will only run if I click the dropbox file (or its link that I put in /root/startup)

(running lucid 5.2 frugal; 2 gigs ram)

Any suggestions?

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#37 Post by trapster »

Make sure it's /root/Startup
(capital "S")
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#38 Post by sfeeley »

Make sure it's /root/Startup
(capital "S")
I checked, but that doesn't seem to be the problem (see attached screenshot)

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#39 Post by johnywhy »

DPUP5520 wrote: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)
on Saluki, this pet installs fine, but gives me

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Failed to execute command "dropbox start -i".
Failed to execute child process "dropbox" (No such file or directory)
any ideas?
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#40 Post by MikeyBrat »

:? What happen? Pet gone! Where can a Slacko 5.4 get? :cry:

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