Hi,

I've recently started to use Dropbox, mainly for sharing manuscripts with my editor and fellow writers. I did the first setup on a laptop running Elementary OS (based on Ubuntu) with the Nautilus file manager. I installed the nautilus-dropbox package and could use Dropbox immediately. (To be perfectly honest, installing that package failed miserably, and I had to spend at least a couple hours manually downloading and installing everything and then trying to figure out how to repair a broken apt-get mess... ).

Anyway.

What's the best way to use Dropbox with Slackware, KDE 4.10.5 and Dolphin? Any suggestions?

Cheers,

Niki

PS: yes, Owncloud is on my bucket list, somewhere on the 157th position.

I use dropbox as recommended by it's README file that says:
"Thanks for downloading Dropbox! This is version 2.11.9 of the raw binary distribution of our
syncing daemon. Normal users should not install this package manually and instead
should use our main Linux package located at http://www.dropbox.com/downloading?os=lnx

To install just place this directory (.dropbox-dist) in your home directory (~, $HOME)

To run simply run this command:

$ ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

"
It works fine and updates itself automatically.
PS: I've installed it using the command line option proposed at the web link above.
To integrate dropbox and dolphin see http://bpetrushev.appspot.com/t/kde-...e-menu-dropbox

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I use http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/network/dropbox/
as you will see it uses the native build from dropbox and sets it up in slackware menu for you.

This has been the Slackware way a long time. I use it and it works just fine.
I also find just using the SBOPKG browser installer for slackware to be the easiest way to maintain Slackware.
http://www.sbopkg.org/

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My own dropbox-client package takes the opposite approach from the SBo version.
While the SBo version packages the binary deamon and adds a desktop entry which invokes the daemon, my own package uses the nautilus-dropbox client download instead. That client in turn downloads the dropbox daemon binaries the first time it is started (and downloads that daemon into your $HOME instead of to /opt/dropbox like the SBo version).

I never tried the SBo approach so I do not know how it behaves, but my package works in such a way that when you double-click on the dropbox icon in the system tray, it will open the file manager which is set as the default for your Window manager and show you your dropbox content. The filemanager integration which dropbox offers with Nautilus (little icon overlays which show you the upload status of a file) are missing in Slackware since we do not have nautilus.

Eric

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Please just totally ignore this if it trolls you, not intended.
http://www.drop-dropbox.com/

http://git-annex.branchable.com/
Joey's pre-built Linux tarball worked fine on Slackware 14.1, but haven't tried it lately (3 months or so).
ymmv, hth, blablabla

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Thanks everybody for your suggestions. I'll look into this tomorrow. In the meantime, I'll mark this thread as solved.