Don't try this on ARM

After getting Dropbox to compile and run, it complains that it's missing the proprietary daemon, which is impossible to download anywhere for the ARM (new Samsung $249 chromebook). Monitor the feature request here. [ This section needs update.]

For x86 and in case the daemon is released

Use apt-get if you can:

sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox

If not, this is a work in progress to help compile dropbox by source. Note the missing packages may differ for your distribution. This is for the default XFCE.

sudo apt-get install libnautilus-extension-dev python-gtk2 python-docutils

Download the source and follow instructions at https://www.dropbox.com/install2

./configure; make

sudo make install

./dropbox start -i