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Add Dropbox Indicator to Ubuntu Natty Narwhal


Installing Ubuntu perfect, everything works fine, and start to sync my Dropbox folder... And oh, surprise. Could not see the icon. Then I remembered that now I had to display the Notification area. I tried upgrade to the latest version and still did not receive the icon.

So I searched and found this solution that can enable the display of Dropbox, or AppIndicator, which will display on our desktop client.

To download, follow these steps:

Open a terminal and dropbox process ends with :
dropbox stop
Delete the folder dropbox settings on our team (the same as delete when we update dropbox):
rm -r ~/.dropbox-dist
Download the latest version of Dropbox, supporting AppIndicator. If you have 32-bit writes:
cd
wget http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-1.1.7.tar.gz
tar -xvf dropbox-lnx.x86-1.1.7.tar.gz
If you have 64-bit command cd
wget http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-1.1.7.tar.gz
tar -xvf dropbox-lnx.x86_64-1.1.7.tar.gz
Now start with Appindicator Dropbox:
dropbox start
If all goes well, they'll see this:


See? Very easy.

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3 Comments

  1. Hi,

    thanks for the hint on how to get dropbox to work with natty. I think i got an easier solution:

    stop dropbox daemon, remove ~/dropbox-dist and then start the daemon again, using dropbox start. This will automatically install the latest client.

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  2. The http address didn't work, however dropbox supplied the answer. After deleting ~/.dropbox-dist simply run: dropbox start -i

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