Dropbox & Xubuntu

I’m trying out Xubuntu Jaunty on a small atom server and needed to setup dropbox (get it here) but the default dropbox package needs gnome!

Fortunately I found a simple workaround on the inter-tubes:

• Download the closed source Dropbox Linux client from http://www.getdropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86 (x86_64 for 64 bit)
• Extract the contents and you should get a .dropbox-dist folder out of the archive. Move the folder to $HOME
• Run “~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd &” (without the quotes), wait a sec and you’ll get the config wizard.
• Now add the same “~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd &” to the session auto-start program list and your set!

[original: http://antrix.net/journal/techtalk/dropbox_kde.html]