Solved a Dropbox install error in UBUNTU Jaunty easily
July 21st, 2009
Priyanka
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.
All these happened just after I installed Dropbox in my UBUNTU Pc with the downloadable linux .deb file.
Did -
sudo killall nautilusas only
$ killall nautilusmentioned 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.
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Many thanks for that. Such a simple solution to a problem that was causing me some headaches in Ubuntu 9.10 Koala
Thanks a lot!
This solved my Dropbox Error in Ubuntu 9.04 x86.
thank you. it worked
A very special thanks from argentina (gracias amigo) it’s works…
It will nice to have this post and it is really help me installed the application.
Thanks for the post.
You are a very smart person!