Even though this is an old discussion, I would still like to add a few
things to it. I'm a systems administrator and I believe most of my kind
would agree with me when I say that installing binaries in a user folder
is bad practice in general. I work in an organization where Dropbox is
used by a
As a normal user ans usually happy camper, I came across this report
when wondering what was the difference between installing Dropbox from
Ubuntu repositories (nautilus-dropbox package) than from the package
available on Dropbox website/repository.
Now that I understand, I do share many of the
I got the messags saying that Dropbox was running from an unsupported
location after installed nautilus-dropbox from ubuntu repository. I
clicked Don't ask again and it seems that Dropbox was running as
intended. I just want to make sure Dropbox really works properly if I
ignored the message.
To
On 23/10/12 21:05, Alfred Zhu wrote:
I got the messags saying that Dropbox was running from an unsupported
location after installed nautilus-dropbox from ubuntu repository. I
clicked Don't ask again and it seems that Dropbox was running as
intended. I just want to make sure Dropbox really
Hi Raphael, thanks for bringing us system-wide installation of dropbox!
But isn't the description of nautilus-dropbox, Dropbox integration for
Nautilus, misleading? Somehow, Downloads non-free binary blob from
somewhere could be mentioned.
I think the downloader functionality should be split out
Lol I just tested the nautilus-dropbox solution for a new LTSP user. Screenshot
shows what I got.
@David Euresti: So the result of the fruitless discussion is that you included
a unsupported location nag screen ( see also
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679963 ).
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Hi,
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Jakob Unterwurzacher wrote:
But isn't the description of nautilus-dropbox, Dropbox integration for
Nautilus, misleading? Somehow, Downloads non-free binary blob from
somewhere could be mentioned.
It's in the full description:
Description: Dropbox integration for
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012, Paul Abrahams wrote:
pwa@pwa-K60IJ:~$ dropbox start -i
Starting Dropbox...
Dropbox is the easiest way to share and store your files online. Want to
learn more? Head to http://www.dropbox.com/
Error: Trouble connecting to Dropbox servers. Maybe your internet
To clarify: the download does work and the proxy complaint is almost
certainly bogus. I'm not using a proxy (systems settings confirms
that). Here's the output you asked for:
pwa@pwa-K60IJ:~$ env
SSH_AGENT_PID=23805
KDE_MULTIHEAD=false
DM_CONTROL=/var/run/xdmctl
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm
An afterthought: the most appropriate place for me to deal with my
Dropbox problems would have been the Dropbox forums, but unfortunately
they are down for renovation.
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Another afterthought: I tried installing the new package you provided.
It seems to work, although it needs to be started with dropbox -i
start, not dropboxd. I need to do some other fiddling before I can
be entirely sure.
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Update: the dropboxd command from the new package doesn't work after
all. It simply hangs.
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Title:
nautilus-dropbox forbids dropbox's non-free
Update: dropboxd does work after all. The problem was that I hadn't
uninstalled my previous working version of Dropbox.
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nautilus-dropbox
I'm a Dropbox user. Dropbox worked fine for me under 11.10; on this
machine it does not work under 12.04. I tried the procedure recommended
by Dropbox:
cd ~ wget -O - https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64; | tar xzf -
~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
And I soon got this:
pwa@pwa-K60IJ:~$
I forgot to mention: on a different machine, also running 12.04, I see
that the dropbox package is installed and the nautilus-dropbox
package is not installed. And on that machine, Dropbox works. However,
I cannot determine where that dropbox package came from.
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Update: I've gotten Dropbox working by downloading it from the website
and using the Deb installer (which, conveniently, is offered by
default).
So the situation is this, it seems. There are three possible ways to
install Dropbox:
1. Download it from the Dropbox website and install it with
Just another random Ubuntu user here and I agree with Allan. I like
DropBox and use it on five devices, but since the update issue above
hasn't been sorted out it really doesn't belong in the repos. Keeping
broken software in the software center is silly. Let the DropBox company
continue handle
Hi. I'm just a random Ubuntu user who is also a DropBox user. I
intsalled the package from the Ubuntu repo, got the running from an
unsupported location message, and found this bug report.
As I read this thread, the Dropbox company position is that it's better
not to have the package in the
Is there a final decision on this? What are the next steps?
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Title:
nautilus-dropbox forbids dropbox's non-free binaries to replace
themselves
Ok, I see your point now, thanks. I know the non-free binaries are
already a security problem, but I think it's even riskier having non-
free software that installs binaries in our home and upgrades itself
without notice. I would expect packagers to make it the least insecure
possible, lessenning
I don't see what's different in nautilus-dropbox compared to other
packages. It seems like upstream wants to open a potential security hole
in our Ubuntu systems. I think people should already know Ubuntu
packages are supported by the Ubuntu community, not by upstream, so
where's the confussion.
I've chosen to trust the Ubuntu community, not Dropbox, I wouldn't expect
Ubuntu packages to be updated by upstream authors. What's different here?
I'm sorry, but if you believe that having dropbox packages in the Ubuntu
archive insulates you from having to trust dropbox, then you are very
Hey guys,
We provide a single package because that's the easiest thing for our users.
They don't have to think about which version of Ubuntu is running or anything
else. We have fixed the package to work from all version from 8.04 to 11.10
even through different versions of GNOME. Obviously
I also want to highlight that Dropbox (the company) provides a single
package and that it doesn't work across all Ubuntu releases (due to the
different GNOME versions and changes at the nautilus level). So there's
real value in having our own nautilus-dropbox that works with each
corresponding
Raphael,
I don't understand how working around upstream's updater is good for
users here. I don't /want/ to remember to type dropbox update, they
already do that for me. Why do we even need a wrapper if Dropbox is
accepting responsibility for the user's installation?
The user has already made
Hi Raphaël,
At Jorge's request, I've had a look at the nautilus-dropbox package in
precise. There seem to be two main differences between the upstream
package and the one included in precise.
- The precise package stores dropboxd in a central location instead of
keeping one copy per user.
Hi,
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012, Steve Langasek wrote:
- The precise package stores dropboxd in a central location instead of
keeping one copy per user. This is in principle the preferred way to do
so in the distribution, but has the side effect that users who don't
have admin privileges are unable
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
Why do we even need a wrapper if Dropbox is
accepting responsibility for the user's installation?
Even the upstream package is only a wrapper. They do not provide a package
that directly contains their dropboxd daemon.
The user has already made the
For the record, just like any wrapper, the user can force an update/re-
installation at any point of time with dropbox update.
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