Funtoo Linux BDFL drobbins Posted November 20, 2017 Funtoo Linux BDFL Report Share Posted November 20, 2017 Hi All, I've just massively reworked the net-misc/dropbox ebuild to provide a much better experience in Funtoo and you should see this showing up in the next few hours. I couldn't get the Gentoo dropbox working reliably. Here is a list of all the changes: Updated to dropbox-39.4.49.ebuild No longer has an initscript It now sets up ~/.dropbox-dist for each user who sets up dropbox (rather than having a system dropbox install) You don't need to be in the "dropbox" group to use the dropbox nautilus (gnome file browser) extension gnome support is built-in (as long as "gnome" is set in USE, which it is if you are using the GNOME mix-in.) Reworked the python 'dropbox' script to provide a better user experience and be optimal for Funtoo: if you start "dropbox" for the first time from GNOME, it will start a GTK+ installer to set up dropbox for you. if you don't have a GUI, you can still install dropbox The above two features are existing features of dropbox that were somewhat borked in Gentoo. At the end of the setup process, you are given instructions on how to enable dropbox on startup. dropbox command-line tool is also included. Please note that if you have nautilus-dropbox installed, you will need to remove it. This should result in a really nice experience for dropbox users. Use as follows: # emerge dropbox (make sure it's 39.4.49 -- this is the new version.) (as regular user:) $ dropbox start -i This will initialize the ~/.dropbox-dist directory for the user via a command-line or GTK+ interface. Once this is done, dropbox start should be added to your .bash_login and/or .xprofile and can be run immediately to start dropbox in your current session. Since the ebuild is completely new, the possibility of bugs exist. Please report bugs at https://bugs.funtoo.org . Thanks. -Daniel Sandro, d4g33z and ixti 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funtoo Linux BDFL drobbins Posted November 20, 2017 Author Funtoo Linux BDFL Report Share Posted November 20, 2017 Oh, and you also get the QT5-based GUI without having to emerge all of the QT5 libraries. This is very handy for GNOME users. Note that when dropbox is started in GNOME, you will have a little GNOME task icon for dropbox.... It contains dropbox settings... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funtoo Linux BDFL drobbins Posted November 21, 2017 Author Funtoo Linux BDFL Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 Note that the original ebuild I wrote had quite a few issues -- all should now be fixed, and the fixes will be showing up in the -r1 version of the ebuild that should be appearing in meta-repo in a bit. Fixes for gnome and non-gnome installs, python fixes, and now should be quite solid. Thanks for the bug reports! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funtoo Linux BDFL drobbins Posted July 28, 2018 Author Funtoo Linux BDFL Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 I've gone ahead and updated dropbox so that we now have the latest version for Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palica Posted August 14, 2018 Report Share Posted August 14, 2018 Quote Hi everyone, on Nov. 7, 2018, we’re ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems. The supported file systems are NTFS for Windows, HFS+ or APFS for Mac, and Ext4 for Linux. Source: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Syncing-and-uploads/Dropbox-client-warns-me-that-it-ll-stop-syncing-in-Nov-why/m-p/290065/highlight/true#M42255 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palica Posted August 14, 2018 Report Share Posted August 14, 2018 Maybe take a look at syncthing: https://syncthing.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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