[Resolved} Another Dropbox Question

[mark9117]

I have the Dropbox daemon running under Mageia 6. I installed it and got it running from information in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12046&p=70586&hilit=dropbox

I installed Dropbox via this command:

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cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -
~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd &

That wound up a segfault. I moved all the libQt5* files out of the ~/.dropbox-dist directory and "dropboxd &" runs. My question now is, how do I configure it? My Dropbox folder is not under my user's directory due to disc space considerations.

How do you configure dropboxd?

Thanks!

[doktor5000]

My question now is, how do I configure it? My Dropbox folder is not under my user's directory due to disc space considerations.

How do you configure dropboxd?

You don't. This is also the same question you posted earlier, where my reply was: viewtopic.php?p=68758#p68758

[mark9117]

Not quite. If one reads that first query, it is plain that I was working with the Dropbox applet that appears in the system tray. There is no such applet any longer - there is nothing in the system tray relating to Dropbox. therefore, the older topic does not apply and the reference to that older topic is simply incorrect and inappropriate.

Can anybody help me with this? Is it simply impossible to configure Dropbox under Mageia 6, KDE 5?

[fmolina2b]

Hi,

That happens to me also, I can fix that by renaming, in the version subfolder of the .drobpox-dist directory, the library libdrm.so.2 to something else, such as xlibdrm.so.2 (just to be able to undo). Got that after reading in another thread about moving all libraries to another directory and then replacing gradually until things worked. I found this one as the culprit, probably due to conflicts with the one in Mageia. Now, for me, the icon in the tray is a cloud, not the open box, but it works. The caveat is that you have to do that every time dropbox updates itself. May be there is a better solution, but I don't know.

Hope it helps, regards

[mark9117]

fmolina2b is my hero of the day. Congratulations - take $25 out of petty cash and go home early.

I had to duplicate the dropbox-dist folder and delete all of the *.so files. Found PyQt5.QtDBus.so was the culprit in my case. Once it was renamed, I could start the Dropbox daemon and the open box icon appeared in my system tray and indicated synchronization.

So far, the icon is holding and the daemon appears to be running.

I really appreciate the help on this. Thank you.

[fmolina2b]

You're welcome. Where's the cash?