ElementaryOS is the closest thing to Mac OS-X in terms of consistency and minimalism of it’s desktop environment interface. Unlike other Linux distro’s it’s released when the developers think it’s ready, rather than a 6 month rolling cycle. It’ll take a lot to turn my head away from Linux Mint but Elementary has got a lot of things going for it to be quite honest and I’ll leave you to discover them yourself. I’m only interested in problems, and the first one I ran into was installing Dropbox. Installing it from the Software Centre doesn’t work.
They way to sort it, is to install git using sudo apt-get install git
Once git is installed, then run the following commands
git clone https://github.com/zant95/elementary-dropbox /tmp/elementary-dropbox
bash /tmp/elementary-dropbox/install.sh
Dropbox will then open, asking for your account username and password, and the Dropbox sync icon will appear in WingPanel.
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Now App Center also has it. Does a two step process of adding a daemon. Should work for the new Loki users
ok the app center option failed at the second step with some signature mismatch. The git option above worked like a charm – thanks!
The default dropbox.com installation makes the icon look corrupted in elementary os 0.4 loki.
Your tutorial worked well in Loki as well. Thank you.
Works awesome!!!
Thanks a lot!!
Thank you!
Great one, thank you.
Thanks.
After lots of head scratching, this guide saves the day.
Thanks very much for this.
Anyone else have no Dropbox context menus though?
Exelente! funciona a la perfección, un millon de gracias!
Excellent! Worked perfectly. Thank you very much!
Great!!! works fine.
Thanks a lot
Muchas gracias!!!!.Me ha solucionado el problema. Gracias por tu ayuda
Thanks a lot! It’s work fine!
thanks a lot!!! Simple and complete. 😀
First class script, thanks. I’d puzzled over this for a while and had difficulty getting things back to stability after the first attempt, but this seems to have worked admirably
Muchas gracias!!! Acabo de instalar este OS y la verdad es que me tiene encantado.
thanks a lot !!!!!
De nada. Me alegra ser de ayuda.
Thank you!!!
Just works!
OS should just work and this tip is very helpful.
Lovely – thank you very much.
Excellent advice. Exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you very much. The script did everything was needed automatically!
thanks a lot !!!!!