Howto Install Dropbox Without Gnome/Nautilus

I was playing with my Fedora 11 KDE installation yesterday, then i realized that Dropbox has a heavy Gnome/ Nautilus dependency tree.I searched and tested solutions for an hour and here is two ways to get Dropbox working without Nautilus or Gnome dep tree on any linux system (Tested on Ubuntu Karmic, Jaunty and Fedora 11) :

Installation :

Download the closed source Dropbox Linux client from here (32 bit).

Extract the contents to your home folder.You will get a .dropbox-dist folder under your home directory (If not, move it to your home directory.The directory structure will look like : /home/YOURUSERNAME/.dropbox-dist/)

Now you can run dropbox via

$~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

command.

Features that will not work with this method :

*Open my dropbox (Right click to Dropbox System Tray icon and Select Open My Dropbox) will NOT work since we do not have nautilus installed.

There is also a CLI tool which is written in pyton.It provides everthing that nautilus can do and it is located at here.

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