Originally Posted by
ianp5a
It's horrible to install compared to Ubuntu one. You need some tech knowledge for Copy. And the installation instructions miss out important things that only geeks would know. Ubuntu One was easy. And many people have problems with the App indicator not working on CopyAgent.
Ubuntu One came included in Ubuntu.. how much easier can you have it than THAT?!
Copy is not that difficult to install, though. The following code download and extract Copy client, place application code in /opt/copy/ and starts the service. In the setup wizard that starts you can elect to have it start automatically when you log in and what folders to synchronize.
Code:
wget https://copy.com/install/linux/Copy.tgz
tar -xvzf Copy.tgz
# optional clean-up
rm Copy.tgz
# If your Ubuntu is Ubuntu 64bits:
cd copy/x86_64
# If your Ubuntu is Ubuntu 32bits:
cd copy/x86
#Then:
sudo ./CopyCmd Overlay install
sudo mkdir /opt/copy
sudo cp -r * /opt/copy
cd ../..
rm -r copy
cd /opt/copy
./CopyAgent &
Source of coding instructions found here.
I used these code to install it in Ubuntu and on my openSUSE systems. Running on openSUSE threw an error but that is because openSUSE is running KDE and not Unity/Gnome.
I actually have more space in my Copy.com account than I do on the systems' hard drives! So I am considering making an "Archive" folder and not synchronizing it so I could upload files manually and store them in the Archive folder as a backup without having to worry about filling up my hard drives.
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