Dropbox not running at startup
 

I'm running Debian wheezy. I have Dropbox installed, but it won't run on startup. I downloaded their CLI script dropbox.py, and if I use

then it starts. I'm trying to use that to get it to run at startup. I have tried editing .profile, and crontab, but it doesn't work and I don't know what else to try. Is it a permissions issue? (I tried making dropbox.py executable and adding python to visudo) or do I need to have some other command to run it at startup?

I appreciate the help!

I use Dropbox on Debian but i don't use that script.

Install from here (as you have already done obviously) https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx

$ aptitude show dropbox
Package: dropbox
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.6.2
[...]

It reports version 1.6.2, but technically i've updated the binary from here: http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Commu...ox-41209.shtml

I run XFCE, and "Dropbox" shows in my menu system. I've created an "Application Autostart" in Settings Manager, and all is well and shows the icon on my panel.

The first command removes the existing Dropbox application and the second one removes files from your existing Dropbox folder.


Go to this page and download the 32/64 bit .deb file to your Desktop and then install it with gdebi.

You may need to install gdebi if it is not there by default, I cannot remember.

https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx

Just put your command in cron with the @reboot directive:
Changing the path to python and dropbox.py accordingly.

I tried all three - beachboy2's suggestion worked, apparently gdebi made the difference. Thanks!