Comment 21 for bug 909488
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| Raphaël Hertzog (hertzog) wrote Re: [Bug 909488] Re: nautilus-dropbox forbids dropbox's non-free binaries to replace themselves by properly installing dropbox system-wide | #21 |
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012, Paul Abrahams wrote:
> pwa@pwa-K60IJ:~$ dropbox start -i
> Starting Dropbox...
> Dropbox is the easiest way to share and store your files online. Want to learn more? Head to http://
>
>
> Error: Trouble connecting to Dropbox servers. Maybe your internet connection is down, or you need to set your http_proxy environment variable
> The installation of Dropbox failed.
>
> Is this a Ubuntu bug or a Dropbox bug? I have no way of knowing, and
> from the earlier comments in this bug I conclude that there's no
> agreement about that.
Do you know if you need a proxy to access the web? Please paste me the
output of "env" on your shell and of "dpkg -l nautilus-dropbox".
(for amd64, for i386 it should be "lnx.x86" at the end of the URL)
But I'm interested to learn why the download would not work for you.
Do you get a window asking your for admin privileges when running
the above command?
It might be related to the https redirection since the wrapper doesn't
copy over the https_proxy variable. I prepared an updated package
for this. The package is attached (built for Ubuntu LTS amd64 and i386),
please try it out and report back.
Cheers,
PS: In any case, the dropbox wrapper in nautilus-dropbox wants to install the
files in /var/lib/dropbox/ so the suggested wget should really be:
cd /var/lib/dropbox && wget -O - "https:/
But please don't do this for now. Please try the updated packages instead.
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