I’ve been using dropbox to sync and share files between my various computers for quite some time, and overall have been very pleased. However, one area things are not so great… documentation for installation on Linux. After having to reinstall on my notebook, I decided to somewhat document the hidden part of the process.
After downloading the .deb (or other package) and installing, dropbox instructions leave you hanging. There is no dropbox folder, there is no daemon running, nothing. The next step is simply to run dropbox start -i to install the daemon and launch the process to move forward. It’s simple, easy and poorly documented. Maybe dropbox should add this to the end of their install instructions?
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I do not like when it seems some instructions leave out a crucial piece. It makes me wonder sometimes if I did something a little different. Like in my Apache/PHP on Windows install post. There are instructions for that but didn’t tell me I had to give permission to access the PHP in httpd.conf, thus error. Although, going back now I see a comment at the bottom of the page from 2006 telling you to do that.