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For the life of me, I can't seem to get Dropbox installed in such a way that it links to my account and starts syncing files. I've tried the following:

  1. sudo apt-get install dropbox
  2. sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox
  3. install from (1) .deb (2) CLI per https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=linux
  4. installing from dropbox repo per this answer

A couple of these methods had me running ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd. I was expecting to see the url to link the account at some point, but every time I ran this command, there was no output, although the icon would pop up.

When I click the dropbox icon, it just says "Connecting..." even though it never queries me for credentials.

I even tried installing using ubuntu-tweak to see if that would work. I got a dependency error with that, so I couldn't really find out.

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  • This is happening to me too maybe it is a bug I am running both 13.10 and 14.04 – basketball Mar 12 '14 at 18:44
  • I had the same problem. The only thing I found to work was to just install version 2.6.5 instead. You can download it from this forum post. – MuffinSpawn Mar 12 '14 at 14:52
  • @MuffinSpawn Installing with the new version resolved the problem. Although it's not a fix to the issue I was experiencing, I don't see any reason why anyone would want to preserve the old version, so if you make your response an answer, I'll gladly accept it. – Mack Mar 13 '14 at 02:29
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    Also, if someone else chooses to download the 2.6.5 version rather than using Ubuntu default 1.6.1, and you want to register dropbox as a service, follow the instructions posted by Alvin Row in this post. The script works the same in Ubuntu as Lubuntu. – Mack Mar 13 '14 at 04:50
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    Additionally, if you want to start dropbox on startup, you can add bash -c "sleep 20s && ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd" to your Startup Applications. The icon didn't show up for me until I incorporated the sleep command. You can also put the same command in your crontab as @reboot <cmd>. – Mack Mar 13 '14 at 18:22
  • So, you are saying that this is a bug with the Ubuntu version of Dropbox? – Braiam Mar 14 '14 at 11:23
  • @Mack I suggest you add your own answer since MuffinSpawn hasn't. Thanks. – Seth Mar 15 '14 at 00:56

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I was not able to find a solution to the issue with Dropbox version 1.6.1. However, installing version 2.6.5 from this link did resolve the issue.

wget https://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-2.6.5.tar.gz
tar xzvf dropbox-lnx.x86_64-2.6.5.tar.gz

The files will be removed from the archive and placed in the appropriate location for you. Keep in mind, this is not (as far as I know), available from the Ubuntu repos, so you'll need to do a few extra steps to set it up properly.

  1. Set up Dropbox as a service by following Alvin Row's instructions in this post
  2. If you want Dropbox to start on system start, add bash -c "sleep 20s && ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd" to your Startup Applications. Alternatively, add the same command as an @reboot task in your crontab. You can try it without the sleep portion, but the icon didn't show up for me unless I included it.
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  • for ubuntu 13 x64, I solved with version 2.10.41 https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=121698 – Elvis Oct 12 '14 at 12:54