dropbox 2015.02.12 (3.0.3) Pet Needed (SOLVED?)

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zandoval · #1 Post by **zandoval** » Sat 14 Mar 2015, 03:59

Every time dropbox updates our old pets stop working. Can someone make a pet for this recent version of dropbox. Hopefully it will wok with Slacko 5.7.

Here is a link to the dropbox down load site site:

https://linux.dropbox.com/packages/

666philb · #2 Post by **666philb** » Sat 14 Mar 2015, 07:31

hi zandoval

see here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=95100

zandoval · #3 Post by **zandoval** » Mon 16 Mar 2015, 19:34

No luck sofar... Tahr and Prciese not installing... MyDbox pets...

666philb · #4 Post by **666philb** » Mon 16 Mar 2015, 19:39

it works fine in tahrpup .... what happens when you install? did you choose 32bit option?

zandoval · #5 Post by **zandoval** » Thu 19 Mar 2015, 18:36

It would appear that the latest version of Dropbox requires the latest version of Puppy. Tried installing to slacko 5.7 but no go. Works fine in Tahr...

That's OK. I should be working with the latest version of Puppy anyway. I guess soon the 5.7 players will fail as that usually follows. I have found multiplatform soft wear to be quite stable in the Linux field unless they also have to interface with the dreaded Windows machines... OH well...

On to Tahr and as always Puppy rules... THNAKS.

666philb · #6 Post by **666philb** » Fri 20 Mar 2015, 19:20

maybe post in the thread as it might be able to be fixed

666philb · #7 Post by **666philb** » Sat 21 Mar 2015, 22:29

or try mikeb's alternative http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90753

mikeb · #8 Post by **mikeb** » Tue 21 Apr 2015, 10:17

Ok was testing 3.4.3 last nice... does seem to work as expected on Lucid pup which has no dbus or other updates so not sure what the situation is now for newer pups.

They have changed to qt5 which is gross bloat city for the job in hand (login and prefs) but wxwidgets can be very gtk2 intolerant...may have been the previous problem.

Command line usage needs python adding.... are these guys in a competition with google and adobe for the fattest software ever

There used to be a neat static dropbox binary floating around but not sure where it came from... perhaps one of those might at least tidy things up a bit.

mike

Whitesnow · #9 Post by **Whitesnow** » Thu 30 Apr 2015, 02:19

zandoval wrote: No luck sofar... Tahr and Prciese not installing... MyDbox pets...

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It would appear that the latest version of Dropbox requires the latest version of Puppy. Tried installing to slacko 5.7 but no go. Works fine in Tahr...

In Slacko 5.7, you only need to upgrade Dbus, as I wrote in the first post in the thread - http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=95100 (red fonts) - and I gave, still there, Dbus information for download it from my repository.
In Tahrpup, there's already a more recent, native Dbus. That's why it works on it.

Taking account of people who don't

(or can't) read first post in MyDbox thread, I'm considering to implement, in next release, a check of Dbus version and another GUI error handler.

I know for sure that, from 1.8.12 Dbus version, it's OK for Dropbox, but if someone know that a minor version could also be OK, let me know. I have to establish a referential version (<=>).

mikeb · #10 Post by **mikeb** » Fri 01 May 2015, 17:32

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http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=98922

might be of interest to anyone messed up by their recent forced updates.

mike

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dropbox 2015.02.12 (3.0.3) Pet Needed (SOLVED?)

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Dropbox on Slacko 5.7 needs Dbus upgrade to work