I thought I would install dropbox client on one of my Fedora VMs so that working with files is much smoother than from a browser. So, is installing a Fedora Desktop the best plan to do that? Don't assume I know enough of native Qubes ability please - maybe I'm missing a key point!
Thanks,
Patrick
one day of poking around more, let me just ask this. I looked but could not find, is it normal to be able to launch Fedora GNOME inside a Fedora 24 VM? How does one do that? I tried StartX... that doesn't work. Do I need to install something?
Thanks for all the info on this!
Patrick
Dallas
Ran into some issues, can I confirm what you said?
So I first installed dropbox according to dropbox instructions:
$ cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -
That completes ok...
Then they say:
Next, run the Dropbox daemon from the newly created .dropbox-dist folder.
~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
I attempted this in the same Fedore template, is that correct? It installs but doesn't complete - it actually starts dropbox file synching.
I know you said that after I install according to your instructions to do:
$ sudo dnf install nautilus-dropbox
I assume that is also on the Fedora template?
I tried that with and without the last instruction from dropbox on the template.
Incidentally, I am able to successfully load dropbox and synch on any of my VMs... (of course I lose it when restart). So just need clarification on the template.
PS - I do not want Dropbox to start in a VM unless I tell it.
Thanks!
Patrick
Dallas
Thanks David. housekeeping question - before I started I copied my Fedora template, just in case. Am I correct I can easily undo those changes incorrectly made by deleting the template and renaming the backup template to the production one (just deleted)?
Thanks,
Patrick
Sorry, I meant Andrew!
And I see it works so disregard, Andrew - thanks again.
Wow, this is a bear for me.
Dropbox said:Add the following to /etc/yum.conf.
name=Dropbox Repository
baseurl=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/\$releasever/
gpgkey=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc
So I performed a sudo gedit on that file and added the above three lines. When I saved it I received this:
** (gedit:1791): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-position not supported
[user@fedora-24 ~]$
So I do see that you can't save metadata by extending the yum.conf file, and tried a few other things that I think it was suggesting.
When I try and run $ sudo dnf install nautilus-dropbox
I get this:
Last metadata expiration check: 0:14:35 ago on Tue Dec 27 15:23:35 2016.
No package nautilus-dropbox available.
Error: Unable to find a match.
I'm sorry if this is beyond the scope of qubesOS assistance, perhaps I should check in with a dropbox forum?
Thanks,
Patrick
Dallas
Darn, still not working - I noticed this link is not working: baseurl=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/\$releasever/
gpgkey=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc
So it's not finding the file, tested that just in my browser address bar.
Patrick
So if I:
[user@fedora-24 etc]$ cat dropbox.repo
I get...
[Dropbox] name=Dropbox Repository
baseurl=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/$releasever/
gpgkey=https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc
Then when I run
[user@fedora-24 etc]$ sudo dnf --refresh install nautilus-dropbox
I get...
google-chrome 2.3 kB/s | 3.7 kB 00:01
Fedora 24 - x86_64 - Updates 3.4 MB/s | 20 MB 00:05
Qubes OS Repository for VM (updates) 155 kB/s | 435 kB 00:02
No package nautilus-dropbox available.
Error: Unable to find a match.
[user@fedora-24 etc]$
What do you think?
Thanks,
Patrick
Ok, still same result - to confirm:
I created the file dropbox.repo inside the /etc/yum.repos.d folder
Contents of the file
[Dropbox] name=Dropbox Repository
baseurl=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/$releasever/
gpgkey=https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc
Then, I assume also from the /etc/yum.repos.d folder ...
$ sudo dnf --refresh install nautilus-dropbox (but I tried it from several folders)
And the response is still "No package nautilus-dropbox available" Error: Unable to find a match.
Also to confirm, I'm doing all this in terminal for Template:Fedora-24
Thanks,
Patrick
nautilus-dropbox is available in rpmfusion. to enable rpmfusion see the last section of link.
Success!
Wow, well I turned the Firewall on, and tried it, no go. Then I edited the dropbox.repo file to put the line feed in, i.e.:
[Dropbox] {must me a linefeed here}
name=Dropbox Repository
baseurl=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/$releasever/
gpgkey=https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc
and sure enough, that did it! Also had to restart the template and also the VM.
Andrew thanks for hanging in with me. :)
Patrick
Dallas