Installing Dropbox on Puppy Linux

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jackbetz · #16 Post by **jackbetz** » Sun 28 Feb 2010, 00:09

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 · #17 Post by **stifiling** » Sun 18 Apr 2010, 07:55

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 · #18 Post by **darwinev0lved** » Sat 19 Jun 2010, 10:51

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 · #19 Post by **darwinev0lved** » Sat 19 Jun 2010, 10:57

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 · #20 Post by **quemazon** » Tue 24 Aug 2010, 17:35

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 · #21 Post by **quemazon** » Wed 25 Aug 2010, 12:19

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 · #22 Post by **sturu2** » Thu 26 Aug 2010, 02:08

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

sullysat · #23 Post by **sullysat** » Thu 26 Aug 2010, 02:31

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

DPUP5520 · #24 Post by **DPUP5520** » Sat 18 Jun 2011, 01:19

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 · #25 Post by **oligin10** » Wed 10 Aug 2011, 05:52

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 · #26 Post by **DPUP5520** » Mon 31 Oct 2011, 22:21

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 · #27 Post by **DL62** » Thu 10 Nov 2011, 16:42

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.

DPUP5520 · #28 Post by **DPUP5520** » Thu 10 Nov 2011, 22:48

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 · #29 Post by **DL62** » Fri 11 Nov 2011, 08:21

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.

DPUP5520 · #30 Post by **DPUP5520** » Fri 11 Nov 2011, 09:38

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.

DL62 · #31 Post by **DL62** » Fri 11 Nov 2011, 09:44

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!

DPUP5520 · #32 Post by **DPUP5520** » Fri 11 Nov 2011, 14:10

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

http://www.python.org/

sfeeley · #33 Post by **sfeeley** » Fri 11 Nov 2011, 16:40

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.

DL62 · #34 Post by **DL62** » Fri 11 Nov 2011, 21:22

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!

DaveS · #35 Post by **DaveS** » Fri 11 Nov 2011, 21:38

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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