Installing Dropbox on Puppy Linux
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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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.
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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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...
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...
Can't connect
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?
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?
I'm not sure where you're trying to download from, but just about every puppy mirror with a password usessturu2 wrote:How do I go about getting a user id and password to download the .pet installation?
Name = Puppy
Password = Linux
Try that,
Sully
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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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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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When I run this I get 'Failed to execute child process "dropbox" (No such file or directory)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.
Can anyone help on this, please.
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.
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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Thanks for the reply. It is Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 running from a cdrom.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.
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.DL62 wrote:Thanks for the reply. It is Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 running from a cdrom.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.
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.
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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Python is a programming language like perl or ruby and it can be installed from the puppy package manager.
http://www.python.org/
http://www.python.org/
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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.sfeeley wrote:Can you explain or link to your other method? It would be nice to have different dropbox options all on this thread.I have now got Dropbox working by a different method and download so not an urgent problem.
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.DL62 wrote: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.sfeeley wrote:Can you explain or link to your other method? It would be nice to have different dropbox options all on this thread.I have now got Dropbox working by a different method and download so not an urgent problem.
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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