Dropbox has an RPM for Fedora Core 9 (x86). I am running CentOS 5.4 on my Desktop, which I believe is based on Fedora Core 6. Are the libraries Fedora Core 9 uses substantially different than those CentOS 5.4 uses? If Dropbox had an SRPM available, I would Download that and Rebuild, but I'm sure it is Proprietary and they won't release an SRPM to me. TIA! Lanny -------------------------------------- Magazine subscriptions Largest discount Credit/Debit Card Check Pay Pal http://www.lowcostmagazines.com/
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
Dropbox has an RPM for Fedora Core 9 (x86). I am running CentOS 5.4 on my Desktop, which I believe is based on Fedora Core 6. Are the libraries Fedora Core 9 uses substantially different than those CentOS 5.4 uses? If Dropbox had an SRPM available, I would Download that and Rebuild, but I'm sure it is Proprietary and they won't release an SRPM to me. TIA!
I remember trying to build dropbox for CentOS and there was a problem with lib dependencies. What happens when you install the rpm? Does it work? I believe to remember that it had to do something with nauilus. I am probably wrong.
Would be interested if that worked.
Cheers Didi
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
Dropbox has an RPM for Fedora Core 9 (x86). I am running CentOS 5.4 on my Desktop, which I believe is based on Fedora Core 6. Are the libraries Fedora Core 9 uses substantially different than those CentOS 5.4 uses? If Dropbox had an SRPM available, I would Download that and Rebuild, but I'm sure it is Proprietary and they won't release an SRPM to me. TIA! Lanny
I'm successfully using Dropbox on couple of CentOS 5.4 machines, but in a headless configuration. I followed the instructions on the Dropbox Wiki[1]. I concur with Joseph that it looks like the RPM is just the Nautilus plugin. Since I don't use that I'm not sure how compatible it is with CentOS.
[1] http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/TextBasedLinuxInstall
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:00 AM, William Hooper whooperhsd@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
Dropbox has an RPM for Fedora Core 9 (x86). I am running CentOS 5.4 on my Desktop, which I believe is based on Fedora Core 6. Are the
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I'm successfully using Dropbox on couple of CentOS 5.4 machines, but in a headless configuration. I followed the instructions on the Dropbox Wiki[1]. I concur with Joseph that it looks like the RPM is just the Nautilus plugin. Since I don't use that I'm not sure how compatible it is with CentOS.
[1] http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/TextBasedLinuxInstall
William: Thank you for that. I would prefer to do this via RPM, since it is frowned upon not to, but if necessary, I can go that route. Our IPCop box is headless, but not my Desktop. :-) As per my 2nd post in this thread, I am going to completely update my Desktop, before trying to get Dropbox to work. Lanny
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
William: Thank you for that. I would prefer to do this via RPM, since it is frowned upon not to, but if necessary, I can go that route.
I don't think it matters how you install the nautilus plugin, you still will be getting the proprietary Dropbox daemon bits separately (the daemon downloads from the website the first time you run the plugin).
Our IPCop box is headless, but not my Desktop. :-) As per my 2nd post in this thread, I am going to completely update my Desktop, before trying to get Dropbox to work. Lanny
The box I use Dropbox headless on is a catch-all server, not my desktop. I guess if push comes to shove you can install Dropbox headless and use the dbcli.py to check the status instead of using the GUI.
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
Dropbox has an RPM for Fedora Core 9 (x86). I am running CentOS 5.4 on my Desktop, which I believe is based on Fedora Core 6. Are the
<snip> 3 very quick replies already! Thanks to each of you! I am going to Update my Desktop completely, before I try to get Dropbox to work. Steve, please let me know, when you have the RPM ready. Joseph, I will look for the nautilus-dropbox on the Dropbox web site. Didi, stay tuned.... I'm a complete novice at this, but I have the Dev tools on my Desktop and will give it a try.
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
Dropbox has an RPM for Fedora Core 9 (x86). I am running CentOS 5.4 on my Desktop, which I believe is based on Fedora Core 6.
<snip> Follow On: I updated my Desktop and as I assumed, the Dropbox RPM for Fedora Core 9 (x86) will not fly on CentOS 5.4. I got these Dependencies when I tried to install it:
Missing Dependency: pygtk2 >= 2.12 is needed by package nautilus-dropbox-0.6.1-1.fc9.i386 (/nautilus-dropbox-0.6.1-1.fc9.i386) Missing Dependency: libnotify >= 0.4.4 is needed by package nautilus-dropbox-0.6.1-1.fc9.i386 (/nautilus-dropbox-0.6.1-1.fc9.i386) Missing Dependency: glib2 >= 2.14.0 is needed by package nautilus-dropbox-0.6.1-1.fc9.i386 (/nautilus-dropbox-0.6.1-1.fc9.i386) Missing Dependency: libgio-2.0.so.0 is needed by package nautilus-dropbox-0.6.1-1.fc9.i386 (/nautilus-dropbox-0.6.1-1.fc9.i386)
Will try something else, ASAP.
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