dropbox on Ubuntu 16.04
Oct 10, 2016
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This a very brief post on installing dropbox on Ubuntu 16.04, mainly to remind myself how I got it working. In the end, it's the most straightforward approach, but not the one I found at dropbox linux install instructions . So, be careful.
Turns out the install is a simple apt-get:
$ sudo apt-get nautilus-dropboxYou'll have to enter your dropbox credentials and restart nautilus, but everything seems to be working fine.
Kudos to edwinksl and Thanos A for their
answers/suggestions on this
askubuntu post
.
As noted by Thanos, if you followed the process given at
dropbox linux install instructions
you should delete the
~/.dropbox and
~/.dropbox-dist directories before doing
the apt-get install provided above.