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No Dropbox Indicator for Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty)

I’m posting this as a quick and easy “aide-mémoire” for myself as I have a feeling I may need to add the dropbox indicator to another machine I blitz and update to Natty.

Before doing anything else you MUST stop and remove your existing dropbox service. From the terminal type the following:

chima@cibydesign-01:$
dropbox stop (All things being correct you will receive a message, "Dropbox daemon stopped.")

Then type the following:

chima@cibydesign-01:$
rm -r ~/.dropbox-dist (This removes any instance of your current dropbox application)

Now we’re ready to install the latest version!

Step 1. Visit the Dropbox Forums and grab yourself the latest version (either stable or experimental) of the dropbox build for your operating system.

Nothing more simple than a wget from a terminal (e.g. wget http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-1.2.4.tar.gz)

Step 2. No issues there? The file downloaded okay? Good. Within the terminal again we’ll want to untar the download:

chima@cibydesign-01:$
tar -xvf dropbox-lnx.x86-1.2.4.tar.gz (obviously making sure you're in the same directory as the file you've just downloaded)

Step 3. change to the extracted dropbox directory: cd .dropbox-dist/

Step 4. Install the latest daemon:

chima@cibydesign-01:$
Run "dropbox start -i" to install the daemon

Once that kicks in you’ll most likely be guided through the reinstall of dropbox (this might also prompt for Nautilus to be restarted which is normal) – once the install has finished you will see the dropbox icon at the top synchronising your content and all is good!

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