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For the life of me, I can't seem to get Dropbox installed in such a way that it links to my account and starts syncing files. I've tried the following:

  1. sudo apt-get install dropbox
  2. sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox
  3. install from (1) .deb (2) CLI per https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=linux
  4. installing from dropbox repo per this answer

A couple of these methods had me running ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd. I was expecting to see the url to link the account at some point, but every time I ran this command, there was no output, although the icon would pop up.

When I click the dropbox icon, it just says "Connecting..." even though it never queries me for credentials.

I even tried installing using ubuntu-tweak to see if that would work. I got a dependency error with that, so I couldn't really find out.

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I was not able to find a solution to the issue with Dropbox version 1.6.1. However, installing version 2.6.5 from this link did resolve the issue.

wget https://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-2.6.5.tar.gz
tar xzvf dropbox-lnx.x86_64-2.6.5.tar.gz

The files will be removed from the archive and placed in the appropriate location for you. Keep in mind, this is not (as far as I know), available from the Ubuntu repos, so you'll need to do a few extra steps to set it up properly.

  1. Set up Dropbox as a service by following Alvin Row's instructions in this post
  2. If you want Dropbox to start on system start, add bash -c "sleep 20s && ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd" to your Startup Applications. Alternatively, add the same command as an @reboot task in your crontab. You can try it without the sleep portion, but the icon didn't show up for me unless I included it.
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