Re: [orca-list] dropbox?

[Tim <isfeldt gmail com>]

This failed disasterously lol! well the ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd command 
from a console, since I have no speakup, I couldn't tell where the link 
was.. wonder if I should remove the actual dropbox package and try 
again? also for some reason the file saved to sd dout.

On 11/09/2015 07:35 AM, B. Henry wrote:
> No matter the distro there have been problems with accessibility of the screens that one sees when setting up 
> a new computer to connect to dropbox.
> The below gives the command for 64bit installation.
> If you have a 32bit box you will need to substitute/check on the website as I do not remember if they use 
> i386, i686, or something else.
> Basically you want to install dropbox as if you had no gui.
> There are instructions on the dropbox website and many other sites that give the method to do these headless 
> installs.
> Do not try and run the whole thing as one command, and there was a no longer valid tar option...
> Here are the right commands
> wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64"; | tar xz
> When it finishes start the dropbox daemon from a log-in console, not the terminal that opens with control alt 
> t!
> ./.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
> should do the trick.
> This will open up a dialog where you will see a very long url you must paste in to a GUI browser such as 
> firefox. It does not have to be on the same
> computer that you are linking to dropbox.
> Now dropbox will start syncing.
> To get full integration with nautilus you install nautilus-dropbox with your favorite installation method, 
> e.g. on Debian based systems,
> sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox
>    I'd wait till everything finished syncing just because, but this should not be necesary.
> There is a seperate dropbox package that integrates with caja for the mate desktop, and I wrote about how to 
> use droppuburl with pcmanfm and other file
> managers that do not have a dropbox package of their own.
> For Arch based systems your packages are in the aur, so use something like packer to get your nautilus or 
> caja extension packages.