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Solved a Dropbox install error in UBUNTU Jaunty easily

July 21st, 2009 Priyanka
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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.

dropbox logo

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:

  1. Right clicked on the networking icon in the top notification area and disabled networking.
  2. Clicked this link in my PC again – Applications> Internet> Dropbox
  3. The setup dialog did show up!
  4. Right clicked on the networking icon in the top notification area and enabled networking.
  5. The setup took 4-5 secs to detect the Internet connection.
  6. Now I continued with the connection configuration as instructed.
  7. Got my dropbox in UBUNTU pc!
  8. The total process took just 5 mins.

dropbox-setup

Hope this funny hack helps someone too.

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6 Responses to Solved a Dropbox install error in UBUNTU Jaunty easily

  1. Peter says:

    Many thanks for that. Such a simple solution to a problem that was causing me some headaches in Ubuntu 9.10 Koala

  2. Cengiz Can says:

    Thanks a lot!

    This solved my Dropbox Error in Ubuntu 9.04 x86.

  3. asyik says:

    thank you. it worked

  4. Poe says:

    A very special thanks from argentina (gracias amigo) it’s works…

  5. Dexter Boyle says:

    It will nice to have this post and it is really help me installed the application.

    Thanks for the post.

  6. Rupert says:

    You are a very smart person! :)

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