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I normally use dropbox as my cloud account, but i cant use it here on Opensuse. Is there any solution to this? Either a way to install dropbox or some other kind of cloud implementation that works on Opensuse and android.

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There are a couple of links on how to install Dropbox in openSUSE
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/information-new-users/unreviewed-how-faq/446888-how-install-dropbox-gnome.html

I know there are a pair of updated ones but I can’t find them just now but I did use the process to install Dropbox on my Gnome 12.1 installation without too much difficulty.

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Found them!

http://forums.opensuse.org/content/37-re-how-install-dropbox-kde.html
http://forums.opensuse.org/content/36-how-install-dropbox-gnome.html

Unfortunately I cannot tell you how well it works in 12.2 because my upgrade from 12.1 borked my system and I am going to wait and download 12.2 to install from directly instead of trying the upgrade route. Either way I’ll be installing good 'ol dropbox on whichever environment I choose (unless Google Drive becomes available).

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Thank you very much, i am coming from Ubuntu and this was really a breaking point for me.

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I keep switching between Ubuntu and openSUSE and Fedora and Dropbox has been very handy in enabling me to move my files from distro to distro and desktop environment to desktop environment. Only thing getting me down is the size restriction and paying to upgrade is just too expensive. Especially when compared to SkyDrive ($0.50/GB/yr) and Google Drive ($0.60/GB/yr) to Dropbox ($0.99/GB/yr).

But none of the other service providers offer anything like Dropbox’s “Sync over Lan”, where it recognizes that there is a computer on your LAN with Dropbox and associated with your account so gets the files from there instead! This has saved me much time because my slow internet connection would take about 4 hours to download it all, while Sync-over-LAN takes 20-30 minutes (even more if both are plugged in with Gigabit NICs).

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dragonbite wrote:
> I keep switching between Ubuntu and openSUSE and Fedora and Dropbox has
> been very handy in enabling me to move my files from distro to distro
> and desktop environment to desktop environment.

Err, why don’t you just keep it on a local disk? Perhaps a USB plug-in
disk. You could think of it as your own private little cloud :slight_smile:

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Because I also access things from work and already cannot remember where my previous 4 USB sticks are anymore :wink:

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Yes it is so dissapointing the way Google almost ignore the Linux community with Drive.

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Hi
I run an instance of ownCloud, has android clients as well… pretty
easy to install and setup as well.

I also use cloudprint for the printer connection…

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.6-2.10-desktop
up 14:48, 5 users, load average: 0.57, 0.36, 0.28
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU

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Can you install it from the software respetories?

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I think the wrapper that is in the repository does not contain the actual engine. The first time you run the Dropbox application from the repository it asks to download the proprietary daemon.

If I remember right, SpiderOak is available in the repositories, but I don’t know (never really used it).

Google has ignored Linux community with more than Drive; Picasa is just the Windows version wrapped in Wine and SketchUp was never ported. They seem to be less “pro-Linux” as “Linux-neutral” which is still a step for the better compared to Microsoft and Apple’s stance.

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This will install Dropbox in 12.2 KDE:


zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_12.2/ kde-extra
zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network/openSUSE_12.2/ Network12.2
zypper ref; zypper in dropbox dropbox-servicemenu

and afterwards, as a normal user, this: dropbox start -i
(the last command starts the download of the proprietary driver which is mandatory for success)

[adapted from article by caf4926 for KDE users]

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Hi All,

How about a 12.2 Gnome fix for DropBox? It appears that the ‘Contrib’ repo has vanished so the 12.1 Gnome fix won’t work in 12.2.

Just came from Debian/Ubuntu and lovin it!!

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Hi
It’s located in GNOME:Apps (contrib is long gone.)
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?project=GNOME%3AApps&package=nautilus-dropbox

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.6-2.10-desktop
up 5:24, 3 users, load average: 0.67, 0.36, 0.28
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU

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Exellent! So it’s…somewhere. :slight_smile:

I tried:
zypper search nautilus-dropbox
And it came up empty.

Also searched via the GUI package manager, no results.

Do I have to add the GNOME:Apps repository? Since I have Gnome, I kinda expected it to be there already, but I’m open-minded to a few extra steps. Hurdles keep the legs in shape.

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Hi
I would, there are additional apps there, not on the DVD.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.6-2.10-desktop
up 9:58, 4 users, load average: 0.51, 0.75, 0.61
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU

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On 10/01/12 22:57, malcolmlewis pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
>

> Hi
> I would, there are additional apps there, not on the DVD.
>

I just searched and found it in the KDE49 repo.

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I updated the guides:

http://forums.opensuse.org/content/36-how-install-dropbox-gnome.html Gnome

http://forums.opensuse.org/content/37-re-how-install-dropbox-kde.html KDE

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With yaST control center, things are different.
I’m a true newbie and really don’t know how to add to a repo here.

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Choose to add by URL
Copy and paste the http address in the bottom section
Put a name in the top section. I used the name: dropbox
But you can call it whatever you want