About Me

I'm a Sri Lankan, mechanical engineering student studying in Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Although messing with mechanical stuff is my favourite past time I do spend quite some time messing around with PC's as well. I started messing around with ubuntu about a year back so I thought of making this blog and adding whatever I learnt so that newbies like me can hopefully pick up a thing or two. Please take note that most things i write on the blogs are what I picked up from the internet (I'll try to add the sources whenever possible) or what I learnt by trial and error. I am always willing to learn so please give your comments. Being decent while commenting wouldn't hurt :D

Monday, September 14, 2009

First time with Dropbox on Jaunty

I was looking for an easy one stop online storage solution. I am already using google docs and 4shared. Google docs is pretty cool but it isnt 100% compatible with Microsoft Office yet. 4shared is great and gives 5GB of space but you need to go to their site and upload files as they don't have a desktop version for ubuntu. The great thing about dropbox is it is compatible with Linux, Windows and Mac. So you can have multiple PC's with different OS's syncing the same files with dropbox.

First go to System->Administration->Software Sources and add the two lines, one at a time to third party software. Check the Pic below.

1.deb http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu Jaunty main
deb-src http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu jaunty main

Next copy and past these commands to the terminal at Applications->Accessories->Terminal

2.Update your packages list. Run “apt-get update“.

3.Install Dropbox "apt-get install nautilus-dropbox"

4.There is a small hitch where Dropbox doesn't autostart with Jaunty. I searched the web and found that adding dropbox start -i as the command in System->Preferences->Startup Applications->Add had worked for a couple of people. Well it did so for me too:)

This is what Software sources looks like
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