Howto: Install Dropbox on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

2May/10

Howto: Install Dropbox on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

If you're like me and just can't switch over to Ubuntu One because they don't have a cross-platform client quite yet, Dropbox is still the king of easy folder synchronisation.

Step 1
Go to www.dropbox.com/downloading and download the appropriate .deb file.

Note: If you don't have a dropbox account sign-up for one here

Note: If you're not sure which one to download, you'll notice just above the download links they recommend which one you should download.

Step 2
Once downloaded, locate the file and double click it. You'll be presented with a package installer, just follow the on screen prompts.

Step 3
Another window will pop up, again just follow the prompts. This will restart nautilus for you.

Step 4
Go to Applications->Internet->Dropbox from your menu. This will start the final stage of this installation, click OK, wait for it to download and install the daemon.

Step 5
All you've got to do now is to put in your Dropbox account details (assuming you have an account) and follow the rest of the prompts and you're done.

Enjoy stupidly easy file syncing, cross-platform!

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Tagged as: 10.04, Dropbox, Howto, Install, LTS, Lucid Lynx, Ubuntu, Ubuntu One Leave a comment

B0rn

good job
B0rn

good job
Anonimo

Thanks it help me a lot I was trying it via CLI what a mess, lol
Anonimo

Thanks it help me a lot I was trying it via CLI what a mess, lol
Jos

Better than Dropbox’s help!!
Jos

Better than Dropbox’s help!!
Vincent

I have installed Ubuntu Lucid 10.04.2 using wubi. Installation of dropbox fails during the download of the proprietary daemon, at 89% (and CPU utilization around 45-50% but no other application running.
I’ve tried this now 7 or 8 times. Maybe I should terminate nautilus?

http://friendlytechninja.com/ Jonathan

You might want to use:

sudo apt-get purge dropbox

Which will delete any previous setting before trying to install it again. The dropbox install guide is pretty good, see the link bellow:

https://www.dropbox.com/downloading?os=lnx
Vincent

Sorry, please mark the last post as solved – I followed the posts on the dropbox forum and removed the files left from the incomplete install.
The installation completed in a minute or two.
Thanks for very useful posts here and to dropbox.com for a superb product.

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