Yes, but the Dropbox .deb requires nautilus, which is only installed with vanilla Ubuntu. Technically Dropbox is not the same as mounting a remote file system, you have a real local copy even if you have no web access.
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Javier Mora <[email protected] > wrote: > Isn't there a .deb package for it on the dropbox homepage? Only for Gutsy > to Karmic, but I guess the Karmic version should work on Lucid as well. > > If I understood right, what dropbox does is mount the online folder as a > local synchronized folder, so any file manager should work. (Personally, I > think this is just reinventing the wheel, there already was ftp) > > I think Dropbox should implement an alternative interface as an FTP server; > this way you wouldn't need to install anything on most OS and distros. > > > Jon Monreal escribió: > >> Nope, but I'll probably give it a try later (possibly tomorrow) because >> I'm fairly interested as well. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:06:33 -0400 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Lubuntu-desktop] Dropbox >> >> Has anyone tried (and succeeded) to get Dropbox working on Lubuntu? There >> are "text-based" instructions, >> >> http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/TextBasedLinuxInstall >> < >> http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your >> inbox. See how. < >> http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2 >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >> Post to : [email protected] >> >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- In 2008, the world created 31 billion tonnes of CO2 and the level of CO2 in the atmosphere rose by 2 ppm, or 16 billion tonnes. Much of the remaining 14 billion tonnes went into making the oceans more acidic. We are changing our environment too quickly and we are now 12% over the safe threshold of 350 ppm.
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