[27507] in Athena Bugs
Re: Debathena: dropbox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Fri Oct 1 15:43:10 2010
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 15:43:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
To: yl382@mit.edu
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Hi Yutian,
Last time I tried installing Dropbox on a cluster machine (about a year
ago), I was able to do so. You have sudo/gksudo permissions, so I'm a bit
unclear what you mean by 'restricted access'. The one catch is that the
Nautilus (file manager) integration requires you to log out and log in,
which would clean up the installed Dropbox package, but you can work
around this by killing and restarting Nautilus from a terminal.
I might try installing a newer version of Dropbox and seeing if there's a
way to make the installer work more cleanly. But hopefully this
information gets you started.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
SIPB Debathena team
bugs@mit.edu
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, yl382@MIT.EDU wrote:
> System name: barker-6-3
> Type: x86_64
> Display type: ATI Technologies Inc RV610 [Radeon HD 2400 XT]
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/bash (?)
> Window manager: unknown
>
> What were you trying to do?
> I would like to install dropbox on ubuntu.
>
> What's wrong:
> Restricted access
>
> What should have happened:
> [Please replace this line with your information.]
>
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> [Please replace this line with your information.]
>
