Using Dropbox on Ubuntu

If you are exchanging files with a client via Dropbox Show archive.org snapshot you do not need to access the Web page every time you want to fetch files. Instead, you can fully integrate your Dropbox account(s) into nautilus (Gnome's file manager) with automatic synchronization.

1. Get the .deb file for your system architecture (32 or 64 bit) from the Linux download page Show archive.org snapshot .
2. Install the downloaded package using either the Gnome integration (double-click it) or the shell, e.g.: dpkg -i nautilus-dropbox_?.?.?_amd64.deb
3. Follow the graphical installer (use the custom installation for further tweaking).
4. The installer will start the Dropbox daemon at the end which opens a configuration screen. Sign in with your credentials.

You now have a folder like ~/Dropbox/ which is being synchronized. Also, there will be icons in nautlius displaying the synchronization state.

Note that installing the .deb package adds an APT source so the Dropbox client is kept up to date.