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Drop box installation based on Terminal

How to install dropbox from terminal in Ubuntu 12/13/14

Dropbox became one of the most important softwares, especially for researches, to save their research work. The demand was further enriched with the closure of ubuntuOne, which used to be favorite online cloud storage.

Here follows the procedure for the installation of dropbox:

Step 1: For 32 bit machines:

 cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86" | tar xzf -

For 64 bit machines:

cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -

Step 2: Next, run the Dropbox daemon from the newly created .dropbox-dist folder.

~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd