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Okay, I've got Dropbox.
Preliminary question: I was given the choice of installing DB from a Ubuntu .deb and a Debian .deb. I chose the latter. From my subsequent research I realized I'd made the wrong choice. So question: Does Xubuntu (my distro) always use just Ubuntu .debs. (I have installed Sigil with the Gdebi installer. Should I get rid of the Gdebi installer?)
Okay, back to Dropbox. So as I said, I installed it with (what I believe was) the Debian .deb. So, tired of my avoiding the USC I installed DB on my other computer with the USC.
Now, the other (Debian.deb installed DB) computer’s DB was working fine, but I thought (the perfectionism in me), "I'll uninstall it and then re-install it via the USC--that way they'll be perfectly matched." And in my defence I went to Xubuntu chat and some seemingly responsible person there told me I could do just what I wanted (thru Synaptic).
So I first checked USC and there was this (I couldn't find it now in the USC) DB CLU extension something or other. (I think it was a "dummy" thing for DB.) So I uninstalled that. Then I went to Synaptic and found some DB stuff and uninstalled that. Then I went to the DB folder and deleted that.
Well, when I did that DB gave me a pop-up saying: 'Do you want to exit (which will re-install your Dropbox folder) or re-link? I chose re-link. That just gave me a DB sign-in pop-up. And I signed in.
And my DB folder was sitll in the tool bar and everything seemed normal. (And the two computer's sync properly.) And all with DB uninstalled on the one computer! (I even checked in the terminal and it said, 'Dropbox is not installed. Install it with sudo blah blah blah.')
Well, this made me kind of crazy wondering what was up, so I checked the Catfish File Finder and indeed there were all kinds of DB files.
So, leave well enough alone or should I install DB from the USC or the terminal?
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