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What is the best way to install dropbox? I found a slack build but it was old and that version is no longer available. I would like to build the current version.
It appears that KDE has some sort of dropbox functionality built in to it because it asks if I want to upload files which I have edited.
I've built it myself before but I'm trying to do it correctly and would like to use a slack build.
FYI I just changed the version and it worked. However I couldn't get it to work with the source posted on the dropbox website. It appears to be packaged in a different format.
What I did was I clicked on the source link on the slack build web site and just changed the 1.0.10 to 1.4.0.
I think there is still a few bugs to work out, but it works.
i looked at other site that usually posted Windows' version of dropbox
as they sync their work between Windows and Linux, i can easily track their version and i can get the URL easily
Hmmm... I'm having a bit of trouble with that one. Version 1.4 worked fine. When I ran this slackbuild it appeared to compile and install correctly, however when I run dropbox start -i I am told that python-gpgme isn't installed. I can't find a slack build for it either.
if that did not work for you and you are having trouble with it, try the one from SBo. Just copy the download link and paste it as URL but with 2.0.2 as the version.
then you need to change the SlackBuild for the version number and delete line 66 from it. you need to also change the info file to reflect the changes. I simply delete the info file but it is not a good thing to do. I am lazy
then, just run the slackbuild and installpkg what it produces.
worked for me ever since the SBo package stopped being maintained.
as for version, I use dropbox's site and select near the download button "Windows". it tells the site to fetch you the windows version that is more up to date, but for now the site returns 2.0.0.
to get the latest version.
I got the Dropbox-1.2.49 SlackBuild from http://www.slackbuilds.org/ and updated the contents of the dropbox.info and dropbox.SlackBuild files with the content of the files from willysr's SlackHacks in post#3. I had to copy and paste the code from the HTML pages as I could only download the HTML pages from SlackHacks.
Then I was able to successfully build a Dropbox package and install it.
to get the latest version.
I got the Dropbox-1.2.49 SlackBuild from http://www.slackbuilds.org/ and updated the contents of the dropbox.info and dropbox.SlackBuild files with the content of the files from willysr's SlackHacks in post#3. I had to copy and paste the code from the HTML pages as I could only download the HTML pages from SlackHacks.
Then I was able to successfully build a Dropbox package and install it.
the easiest way to get an updated version is by cloning it
it won't take much space as it doesn't include any source
in total (including .git which stores all history for tracking purposes), you only need to download 11 MB. After that, if you wish to remove the .git, you can save up to 5.5 MB, so the repository is about 6 MB
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