Saturday, January 10, 2015

How to install Dropbox in ubuntu 14.04 LTS

  1. Download the .deb file from Internet, the website link is here: Install dropbox on your linux box. (There are some instructions in official about how to install dropbox from command line). An alternative way to download dropbox is as follows:
    32bit download
    $ wget https://linux.dropbox.com/packages/ubuntu/dropbox_1.6.2_i386.deb
    64bit download
    $ wget https://linux.dropbox.com/packages/ubuntu/dropbox_1.6.2_amd64.deb
  2. Get into the folder which contains the .deb file about dropbox downloaded from website.
  3. Enter superuser privilege:
    $ sudo su
  4. input the password.
  5. Start to install dropbox:
      # dpkg -i [filename.deb]
  6. exit the superuser privilege:
      # exit
  7. get into the /usr/bin folder:
    $ cd /usr/lib
  8. Starts the dropbox daemon, dropboxd. If dropboxd is already running, this will do nothing
    $ dropbox start -i
  9. then dropbox will start to install on you ubuntu system

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