[SOLVED] Dropbox and KDE neon

[chimak111]

I use Dropbox on Kubuntu 18.04. I installed Dropbox using

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

and

~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

Will this route work on KDE neon? I'm asking because Dropbox is qt-based and, IIRC, some qt applications which work in Kubuntu 18.04 may not play well in KDE neon.

[claydoh]

It should. I think Dropbox uses its own Qt bits, and not they system's. It is mostly Python as well. You won't hurt anything by trying it.

Yup, I checked, it def. uses its own Qt.I can't use it because my drive is encrypted, and they don't support anything other than unencrypted EXT4 file systems in Linux now .

[chimak111]

Thanks! Regular ext4 here. Dropbox is working well. I installed it as described in the first post.

[Thomas00]

...I can't use it because my drive is encrypted, and they don't support anything other than unencrypted EXT4 file systems in Linux now .

Are you aware of this one? https://metabubble.net/linux/how-to-keep-using-dropbox-even-if-you-dont-use-unencrypted-ext4-workaround/
I need encrypted drives and want to use a todo app on Android which will only play with Dropbox. Setting up an artificial ext4 drive as explained in this article works very well for this use case.
Really stupid of Dropbox to make their users jump through all these hoops...