Building Dropbox[SOLVED]

[The Alpha Gamer]

I'm trying to get Dropbox working, the readme says

In the nautilus-dropbox dir just do:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

How do i do that?

[vincent]

Open up a terminal (mintMenu > Terminal), and then paste the following:

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cd /path/to/nautilus-dropbox
./configure
make
sudo make install

"/path/to/nautilus-dropbox" should be replaced with the actual path, e.g. ~/Downloads/nautilus-dropbox, or whereever else you put the source code in. Also, to compile the source code and build it (that's what configure and make does), you'll need the "build-essential" package, so from a terminal, type:

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sudo apt-get install build-essential

Note that any commands with "sudo" appended require your password, and when it is typed, it won't show...just type it anyways and press enter once you're done.

Now, you can avoid all this hassle simply by installing the mint-dropbox package, so you won't have to compile and install it manually. Just type:

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sudo apt-get install mint-dropbox

[The Alpha Gamer]

Now, you can avoid all this hassle simply by installing the mint-dropbox package, so you won't have to compile and install it manually.

That's the first thing i tried, it didn't work at all


Edit: Just tried your instructions, it was going fine until

configure: error: couldn't find docutils
rob@rob-laptop ~/Downloads/nautilus-dropbox-0.6.3 $ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
rob@rob-laptop ~/Downloads/nautilus-dropbox-0.6.3 $ sudo make install

[rmockler]

The easiest failsafe way to install dropbox is to go to their home page, and download the Linux .deb version for your computer. You would choose Ubuntu for either the 64 bit or the 32 bit version, depending on your processor. When you have downloaded, because it is a .deb file, all you have to do is double click your downloaded file and it will successfully install.

[The Alpha Gamer]

The easiest failsafe way to install dropbox is to go to their home page, and download the Linux .deb version for your computer. You would choose Ubuntu for either the 64 bit or the 32 bit version, depending on your processor. When you have downloaded, because it is a .deb file, all you have to do is double click your downloaded file and it will successfully install.

I already did that too, that didn't work either

[svalbard]

The easiest failsafe way to install dropbox is to go to their home page, and download the Linux .deb version for your computer. You would choose Ubuntu for either the 64 bit or the 32 bit version, depending on your processor. When you have downloaded, because it is a .deb file, all you have to do is double click your downloaded file and it will successfully install.

I already did that too, that didn't work either

Did you manually delete the ~/.dropbox and ~/.dropbox-dist hidden directories after removing the mint-dropbox package and before attempting to install the nautilus-dropbox.deb? Several users (including myself) have had success with doing things that way. If you'd still like to give it a shot, just remove those folders and see if the .deb from Dropbox's website installs correctly.

[The Alpha Gamer]

The easiest failsafe way to install dropbox is to go to their home page, and download the Linux .deb version for your computer. You would choose Ubuntu for either the 64 bit or the 32 bit version, depending on your processor. When you have downloaded, because it is a .deb file, all you have to do is double click your downloaded file and it will successfully install.

I already did that too, that didn't work either

Did you manually delete the ~/.dropbox and ~/.dropbox-dist hidden directories after removing the mint-dropbox package and before attempting to install the nautilus-dropbox.deb? Several users (including myself) have had success with doing things that way. If you'd still like to give it a shot, just remove those folders and see if the .deb from Dropbox's website installs correctly.

Just tried that and it said there is now a version in the package manager, i downloaded that and it works now, thanks