Dropbox on Crunchbang Linux (Openbox)

Jan 24, 2009

Dropbox is available at getdropbox.com and provides an easy way to keep files sync'd between computers while also providing an off site backup in the cloud.

Category: Linux

Posted by: jordonr

Dropbox is available at getdropbox.com and provides an easy way to keep files sync'd between computers while also providing an off site backup in the cloud. The front end to the dropbox service runs on linux, windows and mac:

Dropbox is supported on Windows XP and Vista (32 and 64-bit), Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard, as well as Ubuntu 7.10+ and Fedora Core 9+. We've also had users report success running Dropbox on Debian, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux, Gentoo as well as several other distributions of Linux. While Dropbox may work just fine on other platforms, we don't we don't "officially" support them.

Linux also has some additional requirements:

GTK 2.12 or higher

GLib 2.14 or higher

Nautilus 2.16 or higher

Libnotify 0.4.4 or higher

Wget 1.10 or higher

Now recently I have switched over to Crunchbang Linux and it is missing Nautilus and I don't particularly want to install it. So I found that even without Nautilus you can install dropbox in just a few steps:

Download just the bin files here: http://www.getdropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86
Extract and move .dropbox-dist to ~/.dropbox
Add this line ~/.dropbox/dropboxd & to your ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh file

You should be able to now restart openbox have dropbox running in the background syncing. I was even able to get the little tray icon, though the "Open My Dropbox" menu option doesn't open my file manager to ~/Dropbox.

Linux, Dropbox, Openbox