Computer Graphics, Linux and Everything…

After downloading Dropbox on Mandriva 2009.1, I got en error message when starting the daemon.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "__main__dropbox__.py", line 3, in <module>
File "arch/__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
File "arch/linux/startup.py", line 11, in <module>
File "ui/wx_core.py", line 7, in <module>
File "wx/__init__.py", line 45, in <module>
File "wx/_core.py", line 4, in <module>
File "wx/_core_.py", line 14, in <module>
ImportError: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: XRRGetScreenResourcesCurrent

This can be fixed by downloading an experimental build from here
http://forums.getdropbox.com/topic.php?id=7220

Just download, unpack to $HOME/.dropbox-dist
Then run $HOME/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

EDIT: Even better: download and run this script https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/43645/dbcli.py

I finally got to install Dropbox on linux. It’s made for Nautilus (Gnome) so it didn’t work in Mandriva 2009.0. I couldn’t compile the source for some obscure reason (as usual) so I sent them a mail to ask them where I could download the daemon only. Less than 24 hours later, I got the answer:
DropBox daemon Linux 64bit
DropBox daemon Linux 32bit

Dolphin (KDE 4) didn’t require any special config whatsoever, it just worked right away.

I also installed it on my EeePC 901. It also worked but I had to start the process in a shell and leave the shell open to keep the process alive. I’ll have to figure out how to start a process as a service on this little-too-simple linux.