[SOLVED] How to install Dropbox

[vinoman]

How do you install Dropbox?

I installed Nautilus-dropbox and then tried to install the rpm file but I get this message:

While some packages may have been installed, there were failures.
Some requested packages cannot be installed:
nautilus-dropbox-1.4.0-1.fc10.x86_64 (in order to keep nautilus-dropbox-1.4.0-1.mga2.nonfree.x86_64)

Why is it so difficult to get Dropbox to install? it's very easy on other distros.

Any clues to getting it to work?

running Mageia 2 64bit KDE

[macxi]

Vinoman,

To use dropbox, there are two packages in Mageia repository: Kfilebox for KDE, and Nautilus-dropbox for GNOME.

See Wiki: Installing Kfilebox in Mageia KDE4
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Re: Drop Box Installation - Postby macxi » Aug 26th

[djennings]

Some requested packages cannot be installed:
nautilus-dropbox-1.4.0-1.fc10.x86_64 (in order to keep nautilus-dropbox-1.4.0-1.mga2.nonfree.x86_64)

You already had dropbox installed and were trying to install a Fedora package over the top of it. It is (usually) not possible to mix packages from other distros.

The issue with dropbox in Mageia is that nautilus-dropbox automatically downloads the dropbox software when it first runs. The software it downloads includes a copy of the libz library which is at an incompatible level with the libz library already installed on your Mageia system. The symptom this gives you is the dropbox icon does not appear in your system tray.
All Mandriva based distros have the same problem.

The solution is very simple. All you have to do is delete the copy of libz downloaded by dropbox and it will then use the mageia libz instead.
To do this open a terminal and give the command

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rm -f ~/.dropbox-dist/libz.so.1

Then log out and log back in again and it will work.
Repeat the command any time dropbox release an upgrade.

The long term solution would be for dropbox to simply remove libz.so.1 from the software it downloads. Other distros have their own libz and would not be adversely impacted.

[vinoman]

Vinoman,

To use dropbox, there are two packages in Mageia repository: Kfilebox for KDE, and Nautilus-dropbox for GNOME.

See Wiki: Installing Kfilebox in Mageia KDE4
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Re: Drop Box Installation - Postby macxi » Aug 26th

Uninstalled nautilus-dropbox and installed kfilebox. Dropbox is working now. Thanks.

[solved]