Setting up Dropbox in an KDE environment
Dropbox is an online storage service. It is free and provides you 2 GB of space (for free). Dropbox synchronizes one specific folder on your filesystem - with the counterpart on the Dropbox servers (... it is actually a Amazon S3 system). The good thing: they also have an implementation for Linux. The normal linux-client runs in the background and observes the folder you have selected to sync with the online one.
Here are the steps to get it running and automatically started during your KDE session login:
- register on getdropbox.com
- download and install the (closed sources) binaries:
# change to home
$ cd ~
# download dropbox x86
# for x86_64 http://www.getdropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64
$ wget -O dropbox.tar.gz http://www.getdropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86
# untar
$ tar xzf dropbox.tar.gz
# run dropboxd (first time - wirzard is starting)
$ .dropbox-dist/dropboxd
# start dropbox during login
$ ln -s $HOME/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd .kde/Autostart/dropboxd
$ cd ~
# download dropbox x86
# for x86_64 http://www.getdropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64
$ wget -O dropbox.tar.gz http://www.getdropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86
# untar
$ tar xzf dropbox.tar.gz
# run dropboxd (first time - wirzard is starting)
$ .dropbox-dist/dropboxd
# start dropbox during login
$ ln -s $HOME/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd .kde/Autostart/dropboxd
Dropbox also uses the KDE Notification-System to display status message of the Dropbox-folder.
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