I would think that installing nautilus-dropbox would allow me to add files to my Dropbox folder, and if an internet connection is present, automatically upload files in the folder to the web. From there I can download those files into any device I please. I can use the website for dropbox directly to drag and drop, but it's rather inconvenient.
To get dropbox on my ubuntu 12.04, I used these instructions:
http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/04/...cise-pangolin/
It installs and I restart nautilus from terminal and get
matt@matt-NV57H:~$ nautilus
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
Initializing nautilus-dropbox 0.7.1
But I never get the option to "Start Dropbox" as the tutorial above illustrates.
I try to move a file into ~/Dropbox, but I get
Code:
(nautilus:19671): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_action_group_get_action: assertion `GTK_IS_ACTION_GROUP (action_group)' failed
(nautilus:19671): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
(nautilus:19671): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_action_set_sensitive: assertion `GTK_IS_ACTION (action)' failed
(nautilus:19671): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_action_group_get_action: assertion `GTK_IS_ACTION_GROUP (action_group)' failed
(nautilus:19671): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
(nautilus:19671): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_action_set_sensitive: assertion `GTK_IS_ACTION (action)' failed
I tried to run dropbox from terminal, but dropbox status says
Code:
Dropbox isn't running!
dropbox start tells me to isntall dropbox, and dropbox start -i yields
Code:
Error: Trouble connecting to Dropbox servers. Maybe your internet connection is down, or you need to set your http_proxy environment variable The installation of Dropbox failed.
I don't know how to deal with this step of the problem. I searched here
http://askubuntu.com/questions/31857...alling-dropbox
but I don't understand the suggestion. I'm in China using pubic wifi. So I'm behind a proxy? I don't know.
Tried the uppermost suggestion here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/69434...m-behind-proxy
sudo http_proxy=http://your_proxy
roxy_port dropbox start -i
yields
Code:
matt@matt-NV57H:~$ sudo http_proxy=http://your_proxy:proxy_port dropbox start -i
[sudo] password for matt:
Starting Dropbox...
Dropbox is the easiest way to share and store your files online. Want to learn more? Head to http://www.dropbox.com/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1384, in <module>
ret = main(sys.argv)
File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1373, in main
result = commands[argv[i]](argv[i+1:])
File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 806, in update
download()
File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 529, in download
download = DownloadState()
File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 248, in __init__
self.socket = urllib.urlopen("http://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=%s" % plat())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 86, in urlopen
return opener.open(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 207, in open
return getattr(self, name)(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 333, in open_http
h = httplib.HTTP(host)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1064, in __init__
self._setup(self._connection_class(host, port, strict))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 693, in __init__
self._set_hostport(host, port)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 721, in _set_hostport
raise InvalidURL("nonnumeric port: '%s'" % host[i+1:])
httplib.InvalidURL: nonnumeric port: 'proxy_port'
The installation of Dropbox failed.
Tried this
Code:
cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -
and got this failing over and over again:
Code:
--2014-04-21 13:45:34-- (try:19) https://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-2.6.27.tar.gz
Connecting to dl-web.dropbox.com (dl-web.dropbox.com)|107.22.161.187|:443... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.
What can I do?
