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Posted: **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.

Posted: **Thu 26 Aug 2010, 02:08**

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

Posted: **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

Posted: **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)

Posted: **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

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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!

Posted: **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/

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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!

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Fri 24 Feb 2012, 18:19**

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?

Posted: **Sat 25 Feb 2012, 11:16**

Make sure it's /root/Startup
(capital "S")

Posted: **Sat 25 Feb 2012, 12:58**

Make sure it's /root/Startup
(capital "S")

I checked, but that doesn't seem to be the problem (see attached screenshot)

Posted: **Sun 01 Jul 2012, 18:48**

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?
thanks!

Posted: **Thu 10 Jan 2013, 08:15**

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

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