Dropbox on slackware 12.1 *solved*
 

Is there a way to get dropbox to work on Slackware? I know it normally runs on Gnome using nautilus, but I didn't know if there is a way to get it working on KDE/Slackware.

Dropbox is built around Nautilus, so there is no avoiding it. The best you could do would be to install the GNOME libraries and Nautilus from one of the third party GNOME-on-Slackware projects, and then simply run Nautilus from within KDE.

Running "nautilus --no-desktop" should allow you to run Nautilus without it trying to take over your KDE desktop.

That worked...I just installed the libraries from gnomeslackbuild.org and ran nautilus --no-desktop and it seems to be working on KDE. Thanks!

I figured out a way to install Dropbox on Slackware without having to install Nautilus first. I made a howto that I posted on my website.

nautilus-free solution
 

This solution is actually by v3gard, but the website he mentioned previously is now dead ("move along...") so I thought it would be convenient to post the solution here where it may be easily found. Again, just to make it clear, I take no credit for the solution, I can merely attest that it works.

First, you must download the Fedora-version of dropbox at www.dropbox.com (download the right one for your architecture, wether it's x86 or x86_64).
In the directory where you downloaded the package, issue the command (replacing the 0.6.3-1 and x86_64 with the appropriate version and architecture for you):

This will create a .tgz package. Then, as root, use this command to extract the contents of the package:

Now there should be a folder named 'usr' in the current directory. Move to the 'bin' subdirectory of 'usr':

Inside this directory, which should contain only a file called "dropbox", create a new file titled "nautilus" with the following contents (you may replace dolphin in the script below with your preferred file browser, like thunar or konqueror):

Now move back to the usr directory and create your Slackware package for Dropbox, installing it immediately afterwards (note that you must create the package in a different directory from the one you are working in; I chose '/tmp' because it tends to be the default directory for storing Slackware packages):

Finally, log out of the root account and as a normal user issue the following command to install the Dropbox client:

There! You now have your dropbox available in Slackware. Cheers to v3gard for this.

I would just use the official procedure:

http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTrick...edLinuxInstall

Or get a package here (should work on Slackware 12.1 too): http://slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/dropbox-client/

Eric

Wow, not one but two legends of Slack - dugan & alienbob - replied. That's very cool ^^

I still think the solution is interesting and worthwhile, since you can keep up with the Dropbox releases (hopefully) by simply making and upgrading to a new package... Alien's package, for instance, is one release outdated ;P

Anyway... as always, there are many solutions to the same problem. I'm just glad I remembered this one after v3gard took it down and had the opportunity to post it here. Best regards to all.

Thanks for alerting me, I will update the Slackware 13.1 package.

Eric

Dropbox in Slackware
 

Hello, thanks to Alien Bob for the Dropbox package. I installed it fine on my Slackware 13.1 box. I can get Dropbox running just fine, but I'm wondering if I should expect to see the contextual menus for Dropbox (e.g., sharing options) when I right-click on a folder or file in konqueror? Right now, I'm not seeing them, and I don't have the Dropbox status icons on the folders like I do on my machine running that other popular OS. It would be nice to share folders and files from my Linux machine. And if anyone knows of a way to share from the command line, that would be great. Thanks.

Michael

I just installed kdropbox, now called kfilebox, from http://kdropbox.deuteros.es/

It was v simple. Downloaded source, compiled as per README instructions. On first run it downloaded the daemon, prompted for email/password and connected to my dropbox account.

Now I have a dropbox tray icon in KDE and all my files in ~/Dropbox (default folder, but I could've changed it on first run).

I'm running -current with KDE 4.4.5. Source was kdropbox-0.4.1.tar.gz

regards
Phil