Get Dropbox to Work on Jaunty Jackalope

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Background

I did a fresh install yesterday, and I got a problem on installing the latest Dropbox. The error was like this,

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The program dropbox received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was BadIDChoice (invalid resource ID chosen for this connection).
(Details: serial 734 error\_code 14 request\_code 53 minor\_code 0)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk\_x\_error() function.)

Steps

To get it working, I did the following

  1. Install Dropbox’s nautilus and daemon package

  2. Download latest build of Dropbox (as of April 28, 2009), here

  3. Issued the following command on the terminal

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    cd ~		    
    rm -r .dropbox-dist/    
    tar -xzf dropbox-lnx.x86-0.6.510.tar.gz

  4. Restart nautilus (I did a logout)

and voila, Dropbox is now working!

Credits

Credit goes to Adam Michael Roach, I modified it to fit the current versions and releases.