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#21 Post by jodother »

portable version works ok, i. e. it just launches dropbox without any set up dialogs. It doesn't autostart but that's not a big problem for me - I suppose puppy boots faster without this way.

Maybe the problems with the dropbox .pet are due to the fact that I run puppy from my flash drive.

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#22 Post by TheAsterisk! »

@jodother: I'd wager it's not the flash drive installation that does it, but a specific version.

Up until my Dropbox auto-updated to version 1.2.50 or 1.2.51, I could get it to launch automatically on startup- provided the launch script waited a few first seconds, via the "sleep" command- and it never asked me for my login and setup preferences, like it does now.

It may be that the latest version just has issues running on Puppy. (Not too surprising, if accurate- Puppy is a bit of an odd duck, and they really only support the Nautilus file manager anyway.) Since Dropbox forces updates, with no true opt-out choice in the preferences, it seems likely his could be a common fault.

I'm going to download a few slightly older releases, try to find a way to keep them from auto-updating, and see if the issue goes away. I'll update here if it works, and maybe throw up a bug complaint on the Dropbox website, once I figure out where bug reports are meant to go over there.

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#23 Post by 666philb »

yeah.. it's happening to me now......

a good idea to post in their bug thread TheAsterisk!, i'll join you!!
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#24 Post by TheAsterisk! »

666philb wrote:yeah.. it's happening to me now......

a good idea to post in their bug thread TheAsterisk!, i'll join you!!
:oops: I forgot about that... Too many distractions, I suppose. Sorry!

Well, it's done now, at least. I'll link to my topic on their forums below. If you or anyone else made a separate topic, please let me know, and I'll drop by yours as well.
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=54517
Dropbox version: Linux desktop client, x86, 1.2.51
Linux distribution: Puppy Linux "Slacko" 531

The Dropbox desktop client runs perfectly well once started, but on startup (whether scripted at boot or run manually) the client always acts as though it has not been configured before and is not linked to this computer.

I understand that the client is setup primarily for Nautilus, and Puppy uses ROX-Filer, but that shouldn't affect more than icon display and right-click options via the file manager, should it? (To head off any confusion, though Puppy is often used as a dedicated LiveCD/USB distribution, I have in fact installed the system, and Dropbox remains installed- it just can't seem to keep track of my account details.)

I have tried reconfiguring the client, and unlinking and later re-linking the computer, but it does not seem to solve the issue.

This was not always an issue. I'm not sure exactly what version update the issue first presented itself with, but I know that version 1.1.43 did not do this, but 1.2.51 definitely does. The story is the same whether the client updates from an earlier version or if 1.2.51 is installed from scratch.

There are also a few threads over on the Puppy Linux forum with posts concerning this issue. If anyone would like to have a look at them, let me know and I'll post some links.

Any help or tips here would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I figured I'd ask first, just in case we've missed some ancient Dropbox-fu, and if they're stumped then there's always support tickets, etc.

EDIT: I've posted in another related thread. (The Dropbox forums have a messier search than this one, if you can believe it- or maybe I'm just used to this one. :lol: I missed a ton of Puppy-related threads, many on just this issue.) Here's the link, in case it turns out to be helpful: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=52647

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#25 Post by TheAsterisk! »

Same issues still present- user's login credentials not saved, etc.- but I have packaged up the latest stable (1.6.16) release for 32-bit and 64-bit Puppies if anyone wants it. Latest beta release (1.7.2) is also available.

No additional Python dependencies on these packages, either.

http://www.theasterisk.tk/packages/internet/dropbox

In these dot-pets, Dropbox itself is installed to "/opt/dropbox" but symlink'd to "/root/.dropbox-dist", and it is not setup to start on boot. (A tiny script to do that is also available from the link above.)

Menu entry under "Network".
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#26 Post by 666philb »

brown_mouse has found a portable dropbox version that is seeming to work so far http://portablelinuxapps.org/download/Dropbox%201.1.43
Bionicpup64 built with bionic beaver packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114311
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#27 Post by 666philb »

Geoffrey wrote:
666philb wrote:hi geoffrey

I haven't had a go with your pet as i don't use thunar. It sounds good though, that right click to get a download link , i would find very convenient. Do you know if there's a way to get it to work on rox?

If you ever need more space, there is also 'spideroak' which gives you 2gb
http://sourceforge.net/projects/portabl ... k/download

and if you don't mind using wine , there's sugarsync which gives you 5gb
https://www.sugarsync.com/

cheers

666philb

666philb, a belated reply, I found some info that may allow you to make a menu entry Copy Dropbox Public Link, it is for Thunar but it may be of some use, at the moment I'm playing with Saluki so don't have Rox to work with, my other plugin didn't work so I tried this and it does the job.
http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtop ... 674#p14699

Here is the python script it's not a gz, just remove the gz and make sure that it's executable.

I'm kind of sure that you should already have xclip, I didn't so heres a link http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... p-0.10.pet

Heres the bash script part, I really don't know if this is of any use to you but it may give you some idea on how to do it for rox

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bash -c "dropbox.py puburl %n | xclip -i -selection clipboard"
hope you find this useful

Geoffrey
hi geoffrey, i kinda had given up on dropbox with the problems we were having, how ever the portable one is working well so far. and i used the python script you sent me, and it works well in rox... copying the public link to the clipboard
this code works fine in a script

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#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/dropbox.py puburl "$@" | xclip -i -selection clipboard
thank you
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#28 Post by johnywhy »

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#29 Post by johnywhy »

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#30 Post by MikeyBrat »

I view the request at every startup as a handy security feature.

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Puppy Precise 5.4.3

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#31 Post by cimarron »

Using the portable app (from the first post in this thread) I got Dropbox working on my Lupu 5.1, but it was a bit difficult. It runs, even without python installed, but the icon never appears in the tray.

I had to run the portable Dropbox executable in the terminal the first time, so that it would provide the URL to link my computer to my Dropbox account. After that, it created the Dropbox folder in my root directory and began syncing. No controls for the syncing, though.

But I discovered I could use the CLI script (dropbox.py) to control syncing. That script does require python, and Technosaurus's python sfs did the trick for me. The CLI script allowed me to exclude some folders from syncing, as well as several other useful functions. Once I got it working the way I wanted, I didn't need the CLI script (or python) any more. I just run the portable app executable and it syncs.

I also found I could move the Dropbox folder to my hard drive (out of my save file) as long as I put a link to the Dropbox folder in my root directory. That way the save file doesn't get filled up.


p.s. If anyone's interested, I cleaned this all up and made an sfs out of it:

Dropbox-1.1.43.sfs (19.5 MB)

It includes the portable app, python 2.6.4, and the dropbox.py script. When the sfs is mounted, there's a Dropbox launcher in /usr/share/applications (not sure if it gets placed in the menu properly). Still no tray icon, at least for me.

The Dropbox folder, with synced files, is placed in the root folder.

And I simplified the dropbox.py commands a little (getting rid of the need for the path and the ".py"). With the sfs, these commands work in the terminal:

"dropbox help" displays command options
"dropbox stop" stops the Dropbox daemon, so syncing stops
"dropbox status" gives status of syncing, number of files, time remaining, etc.
"dropbox exclude [list/add/remove]" can also be used to selectively sync (as explained in CLI script info page)

Some of the other CLI script commands may also work. "Start" does NOT work to start or restart Dropbox. I added the command "dropbox-1.1.43" (in /usr/bin) to start Dropbox if it's desired to start it from the terminal. Otherwise, the application launcher works. There's nothing included to start Dropbox automatically on boot, as I don't do that. But a link to /usr/bin/dropbox-1.1.43 could easily be added to the Startup folder.

Important: As I said before, the first time this is run, you'll probably have to run "dropbox-1.1.43" in the terminal, so it displays the url to link your computer to your Dropbox account. After that, the application launcher (or link in Startup folder) works fine.


p.p.s. In this sfs Dropbox will NOT automatically install a newer version. It attempted to do that in another sfs I tried--very annoying.

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#32 Post by technosaurus »

I am just adding this to my watch list. I wrote a dropbox uploader gui that uses only shell (only a couple kb), xdialog and curl. I'll post it sometime if someone wishes to use/maintain it; however, I no longer use a dropbox account, so it may need to be significantly updated to even work.
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].

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#33 Post by Chariblaze »

The portable version has worked great for me in Precise 2.7.1, but is there an updated version anywhere? Dropbox sent me an email saying they'll be deactivating the current version next week.

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#34 Post by grump »

Me too. Currently I use the dropbox .sfs on precise. Today I tried the .deb from dropbox but nothing happened.

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i also got the notification about an antiquated dropbox

#35 Post by Puppus Dogfellow »

grump wrote:Me too. Currently I use the dropbox .sfs on precise. Today I tried the .deb from dropbox but nothing happened.
on a 5.7.1 precise install i installed the deb and checked which dropbox in the terminal. i checked the file in geany and saw that somewhere it said it was version 1.6.0 or so. i know the version i installed was 1.143 so something was changed somewhere. dropbox restarted correctly without missing a beat or losing the taskbar icon.

on a 5.5. install i decided that i should download that cli file as well and stick it in my-applications. when i checked the dropbox file in bin same version (1.6.0--"this file is part of nautilus ..."--something like that) but different result. dropbox wouldn't restart. so i tried from a terminal and was told i needed to
Run "dropbox start -i" to install the daemon
and now it's indexing all the files as Dropbox 2.10.28....seemed to do the 10000 pretty quickly...

i'll recheck to see if the 571 in fact just ignored the deb or was (hopefully) just slicker about installing it on top of what's there, since there's apparently no reconfiguring necessary.

hth

update: the deb was ignored by the 571 machine--it's still running 1.1.43 (i guess that's one way to not miss a beat) and the cli stuff didn't have the same effect. the response was "bad interpreter" for both start and dropbox start -i.

:?

upon restart, i had to reinstall > use previous settings > wait for the list to again be indexed.

think i'll try 1.16.16. it's worked before but isn't set up to autorestart out of the box (2.10 doesn't autorestart despite the link being in the startup folder. even worse, it doesn't seem to be aware that it's already been installed...).

dropbox-1.6.16_x86.pet (32 bit)

dropbox-1.6.16_amd64.pet (64 bit)

there's also these two by Whitesnow:

MyCp, interactive Copy installer (cloud storage utility)
MyDbox,interactive Dropbox installer (cloud storage utility)

update 2: Whitesnow's pet worked perfectly on two 571 installations. kept settings, effortless. needs to be launched with start dropbox command on the setups where i installed it over the 1.1.43 pet.

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#36 Post by Sky Aisling »

Hello, :)
Can Drop Box work on Tahrpup-6.0.5?
Is there a .pet for Drop Box which will work on Tahrpup-6.0.5 or 6.0.2?
Debian downloads were negative.
Thanks for any replies.
Sky

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#37 Post by Semme »

:idea: Quickpet!

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