How to install Dropbox on Linux Mint Isadora / Rosinka 9

I think it’s worth writ­ing up my finds on all sorts of tech­ni­cal ques­tions on the blog: some­one might google the same thing.

Dropbox took sev­eral hours to install on Rosinka, the Russian edi­tion of Linux Mint. It’s all so com­pli­cated when you’re a n00b :)

Now I’m not even sure what exactly helped. Anyway, this is the order:

1. Don’t install Dropbox through the pack­age man­ager or the soft­ware manager.

2. In the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list, lit­er­ally replace “isadora” with “lucid”.

   You can do that like this: open a ter­mi­nal and type:

   sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list
   

3. Then you can try typing this in the ter­mi­nal (if you’re not sure whether you have 32 or 64 bits, choose 32).

   For 32-bit:

   cd ~
   rm -rf .dropbox-dist/
   rm dropbox*
   wget http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-0.8.67.tar.gz
   tar -xzf dropbox*
   

   For 64-bit:

   cd ~
   rm -rf .dropbox-dist/
   rm dropbox*
   wget http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-0.8.67.tar.gz
   tar -xzf dropbox*
   

Taken from here: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=20394#post-131182