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DropBox on Moblin

Submitted by milo on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 21:45

For me, my asus 1005HA-H is basically a companion for when I am out of the office and traveling. Since I consider moblin "unstable" but very usable, one thing I want to make sure of is that in case of a crash, or a complete system reset for whatever reason, I am not stuck losing files that are important to me. This made me decide to look for a webbased syncing option with support for all platforms I use. I ended up with dropbox (http://www.getdropbox.com).

For Windows and Mac, dropbox is easy to install, but for moblin and openSUSE (my daily desktop) I needed to install from source. This proved to be little work! And it was really nice to see my files getting synced on the fly.

It is easy to install dropbox, but you need to run some terminal commands for it.

- Go to: https://www.dropbox.com/downloading and select "source"
- unpack the source. Im my case this was:

  1. bzip2 -d nautilus-dropbox-0.6.1.tar.bz2
  2. tar -xvf nautilus-dropbox-0.6.1.tar.bz2

Make sure your moblin has the devel packages required to build dropbox:

  1. sudo yum install mautilus-devel nautilus-extensions libnotify-devel python-docutils

Then run the compile chain:

  1. ./configure
  2. make
  3. sudo make install

Now start the dropbox deamon with the -i option to download the required components from the dropbox website.

  1. dropbox start -i

Follow the instructions in the GUI.

Have fun!