any linux guru's around? trying to install dropbox on a xbmc openelec box

[ThE gOg]

hi

been trying to find a way i can remotely drop nzb's into a watched folder for sabnzbd on an xbmc openelec install.

figured dropbox would do the job for me so i've installed using putty using :-

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

"~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd"

all goes well and appears to install etc. pasted the link it generates to add this install to my dropbox account.problem i have is it then says :-

Download this CLI script to control Dropbox from the command line. For easy access, put a symlink to the script anywhere in your PATH.

what is this wanting me to do? how do i run the script? does it then come up with a gui on my desktop or something along those lines? pretty sure i just need a shove in the right direction but am stumped tbh, i've googled cli script etc but i can't find and guides/how to's just explanation of what cli stands for i'e command line script.

using this page https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx any advice appreciated

[destro404]

Basically the symlink thing is the equivalent of a windows shortcut. Your PATH is your executable path, it can contain multiple locations containing the commands you want to be available from the CLI by name. For example, your path could contain /usr/bin, meaning that to execute anything in that directory you don't need to type the full path -this is why you can type "vi" to run vi, instead of /usr/bin/vi.

They want you to create a symlink so you can easily invoke the script by typing dropbox, rather than /the/full/path/wherever/it/is/dropbox.py

So, to find out what your PATH is do....

echo $PATH$

To create the symlink do

ln -s /the/full/path/wherever/it/is/dropbox.py /whatever/path/the/last/command/gave

e.g.....

-bash-4.1$ echo $PATH$
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin$
-bash-4.1$
-bash-4.1$ ln -s /home/destro404/downloads/xbmc/dropbox.py /usr/local/bin

Generally you'd use whatever path contains local for local stuff. Hope it makes sense.

[ThE gOg]

thanks mate i'll take another look

[maltloaf]

been a good while since I configured mine but I use it daily to fire nzb's at the revo/xbmc

This rings a bell...

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/inde...t-1416686.html