If you’ve been reading lately, you read where I installed Dropbox in my Slack64-13.0 and Slack64-13.1 on my desktop and laptop machines, respectively.
If you haven’t been reading, poo on you.
I use Debian on my desktop machine as a backup operating system. It’s fully functional and shares some common partitions with Slack; to keep synch’d somewhat. However, installing Dropbox would also be helpful for transferring stuff to and fro between these operating systems, which reminds me… I need to install Dropbox on my Win 7 laptop installation, too.
Anywho, installing in Debian isn’t quite as easy as it was in Slack, but it’s not that bad. Here’s how ya’ do it:
- Download the source tarball from Dropbox’s site.
- Untar it in your download or build directory.
- Install the necessary dependencies using apt:
# apt-get install libnautilus-extension1-dev libnotify python-docutils
- As root from within the recently extracted dropbox folder:
# ./configure -prefix=/usr/local
# make
# make install
# make clean
- Logout
- Login
- Start Dropbox from the newly created menu launcher.
- Follow the setup baloney.
Have FUN!
Later…
~Eric