Solved a Dropbox install error in UBUNTU Jaunty easily
July 21st, 2009 Priyanka Share PDF Download
To my utter dismay after twice restarting the PC and nautilus too, I could not use dropbox. The link was sitting perfectly in Applications> Internet> Dropbox but right after clicking it the tray icon flashed in the system tray/notification area for a few seconds and then vanished.
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All these happened just after I installed Dropbox in my UBUNTU Pc with the downloadable linux .deb file.
Did -
sudo killall nautilus
as only
$ killall nautilus
mentioned there didn’t work ….
I was really frustrated after clicking it a couple of times and got a bizarre instruction here. So after reading the post I too did the same and Yahoooooo… (Nope, I did find the post with Google
) It did work!
In Short What I did:
- Right clicked on the networking icon in the top notification area and disabled networking.
- Clicked this link in my PC again – Applications> Internet> Dropbox
- The setup dialog did show up!
- Right clicked on the networking icon in the top notification area and enabled networking.
- The setup took 4-5 secs to detect the Internet connection.
- Now I continued with the connection configuration as instructed.
- Got my dropbox in UBUNTU pc!
- The total process took just 5 mins.

Hope this funny hack helps someone too.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:12 am
You are a very smart person!
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:49 am
It will nice to have this post and it is really help me installed the application.
Thanks for the post.
August 27th, 2009 at 6:28 am
A very special thanks from argentina (gracias amigo) it’s works…
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:15 pm
thank you. it worked
October 1st, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Thanks a lot!
This solved my Dropbox Error in Ubuntu 9.04 x86.
October 8th, 2009 at 3:12 am
Many thanks for that. Such a simple solution to a problem that was causing me some headaches in Ubuntu 9.10 Koala