Sunday, November 6, 2011

I'm fighting to install drop box on my Ubuntu 10.04. Finally I successfully installed it :-) using the following guidelines

1. First, download and install it

Ubuntu x86 (8.04-10.04): https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/nautilus-dropbox_0.6.2_i386.deb
Ubuntu x86_64 (8.04-10.04): https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/nautilus-dropbox_0.6.2_amd64.deb
Fedora x86 (9-12): https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/nautilus-dropbox-0.6.2-1.fedora.i386.rpm
Fedora x86_64 (9-12): https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/nautilus-dropbox-0.6.2-1.fedora.x86_64.rpm
Source: https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/nautilus-dropbox-0.6.2.tar.bz2

2. Then,

if you are using Ubuntu, we'll update u're repos

2.1 apt-get update;
2.2 apt-get upgrade nautilus-dropbox.
2.3 Get the public key: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 5044912E

if you are usinf redora
1. Create a file in /etc/yum.repos.d called dropbox.repo with this text:
[Dropbox]
name=Dropbox Repository
baseurl=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/$releasever/
gpgkey=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc
2. run yum install nautilus-dropbox (as root) It may ask you to confirm a gpg key, say yes and you'll be good to go.