Monday, December 7, 2009

Dropbox on openSUSE 11.2

Although on the Dropbox download side I read: "Dropbox is supported on x86 and x86_64 versions of Ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu 7.10, and Fedora Core 9. There have also been reports of users getting Dropbox to work on different versions of Gentoo, Arch Linux, OpenSUSE, and Debian."

I searched the openSUSE Build Service if a package is available. Yes, there is, I installed the nautilus-dropbox-0.6.1-1.1.i586.rpm for openSUSE 11.2. After the installation an Icon was available in the panel and I could use my login credentials to start using it.
Very easy!
Make sure, before you install nautilus-dropbox, you'll need to install those packages to resolve dependency issues upfront:

* GTK 2.12 or higher
* GLib 2.14 or higher
* Nautilus 2.16 or higher
* Libnotify 0.4.4 or higher

For user who don't want to use Nautilus, there is a CLI interface available as well. The above dropbox download link points to the instructions how to set up the script.

There is a Dropbox iPhone appliation available as well. Now I can easily sync my iPhone with my computer.

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