Hi, * fe...@crowfix.com <fe...@crowfix.com> [24.09.2010. @21:11:46 -0700]: > I have recently discovered Dropbox as an interesting thing to > experiment with, not without its drawbacks, but interesting. > > I have it running on a work Mac laptop and an Android phone, and it is > another interesting idea to put it on Linux. However, its downloads > are for Fedora and Ubuntu, or a source file which requires Nautilus. > Also, I don't want its daemon running constantly, altho that feature > is part of what makes it interesting wth the laptop and phone. > > Searches bring up various pages, but nothing really promising, either > old or rather convulated or still using Mautilus. One involves a > python script which apparently runs the command over and over, each > time creating one more fake lib to make up for the Fedora/Ubunto ones > required. No thanks ... while an interesting hack, it's not my idea > of a way to the future :-) > > > So the question is ... does anyone have experience with Dropbox on > gentoo? My system is ~amd64, running fvwm when necessary, neither KDE > nor Gnome. I'd really like a command line program which I could run > for manual syncing.
I'm using Dropox to synchronize few conf files and data between my Gentoo boxes (desktops and server). I only use it in CLI, without nautilus or something else (my server has no X server). Since I do not want to let Dropbox having clear data, I encrypt them with encFS. Lokk at these few links I used : https://www.dropbox.com/downloading?os=lnx (official page, the first solution is for server install) http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/TextBasedLinuxInstall (the tutorial itself) https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/dropbox.py (the CLI script) http://pragmattica.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/encrypting-your-dropbox-seamlessly-and-automatically/ (an encFS+Dropbox tutorial, very useful) Then I run .dropbox-dist/dropbox (or .dropbox-dist/dropboxd if I want it as a daemon) when I want a synchronization. Run it without '&' and type ctrl-C to stop it after sync, or write a simple start/stop script. Regards, JC
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