qosamanage.blogg.se - Dropbox desktop uploader

Since at least version 2.4.6 (see comments around on AUR), Dropbox has had an auto-update capability which downloads a new binary to the ~/.dropbox-dist/ folder. You need an X panel with a system tray or a standalone system tray application for that. Note that in order to access the GUI and the settings, the only way is via a tray icon. For some reason, dropbox AUR has not marked this package as a required dependency but it is still such. Otherwise, the program is unable to sign the binaries and verify the signatures, when it is started the next time.

Press the "Finish and go to My Dropbox".īefore launching dropbox AUR for the first time, it is mandatory to have python-gpgme installed.

After some time you will see a "Welcome to Dropbox" pop-up, which will give you the opportunity to view a short tour of Dropbox.

Eventually a pop-up will ask you to log in to your Dropbox account or create a new account.

Click on Don't ask again since you know that you have installed it from AUR rather than from the official homepage.

A pop-up will notify you that Dropbox is running from an unsupported location.

The client icon will appear in the system tray. After installing the package, you can start Dropbox from your application menu or run dropbox from the command-line.As a last resort, the Dropbox website has instructions for a headless install via command line. 7.7.3 Errors caused by running out of spaceĭropbox AUR can be installed.7.7 Dropbox does not start - "This is usually because of a permission error".7.5 Context menu entries in file manager do not work.7.4 Change the Dropbox location from the installation wizard.7.3 Dropbox keeps saying Downloading files.

7.1 Using Dropbox with non-ext4 filesystems.

3 Accessing the files without installing a sync client.