Comment 22 for bug 909488

To clarify: the download does work and the proxy complaint is almost certainly bogus. I'm not using a proxy (systems settings confirms that). Here's the output you asked for:

pwa@pwa-K60IJ:~$ env
SSH_AGENT_PID=23805
KDE_MULTIHEAD=false
DM_CONTROL=/var/run/xdmctl
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm
XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=d0cccc58e087a2964ecd082800000006-1344377500.331880-1152933625
XDM_MANAGED=method=classic
GTK2_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/pwa/.gtkrc-2.0:/home/pwa/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4:/home/pwa/.kde/share/config/gtkrc-2.0
KONSOLE_DBUS_SERVICE=:1.110
KONSOLE_PROFILE_NAME=Shell
GS_LIB=/home/pwa/.fonts
GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/pwa/.gtkrc:/home/pwa/.kde/share/config/gtkrc
WINDOWID=31457298
SHELL_SESSION_ID=08ecaf02cb364000b61f34b6c35093d6
GTK_MODULES=canberra-gtk-module:canberra-gtk-module
KDE_FULL_SESSION=true
USER=pwa
LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.webm=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.axv=01;35:*.anx=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.axa=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36:
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-tRbDQJW23752/agent.23752
SESSION_MANAGER=local/pwa-K60IJ:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/23890,unix/pwa-K60IJ:/tmp/.ICE-unix/23890
DEFAULTS_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/kde-plasma.default.path
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-kde-plasma:/etc/xdg
DESKTOP_SESSION=kde-plasma
PATH=/home/pwa/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
PWD=/home/pwa
KONSOLE_DBUS_WINDOW=/Windows/1
KDE_SESSION_UID=1001
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
MANDATORY_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/kde-plasma.mandatory.path
UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=libappmenu.so
KONSOLE_DBUS_SESSION=/Sessions/3
HOME=/home/pwa
COLORFGBG=0;15
SHLVL=1
KDE_SESSION_VERSION=4
LANGUAGE=
XCURSOR_THEME=oxy-white
LOGNAME=pwa
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/kde-plasma:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-rUH0LwhNtu,guid=25f60c2352f766d31bd0a5ce000065e2
LESSOPEN=| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s
WINDOWPATH=7
PROFILEHOME=
DISPLAY=:0
QT_PLUGIN_PATH=/home/pwa/.kde/lib/kde4/plugins/:/usr/lib/kde4/plugins/
LESSCLOSE=/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s
_=/usr/bin/env
OLDPWD=/home/pwa/.local/share/local-mail
pwa@pwa-K60IJ:~$ dpkg -l nautilus-dropbox
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=======================-=======================-==============================================================
un nautilus-dropbox <none> (no description available)

At the moment I have the dropbox package installed and the nautilus-dropbox package is not installed -- the same configuration as on the other machine where Dropbox works properly. Synaptic was perfectly happy to install nautilus-dropbox earlier (before I did the download); the problem was that the resulting dropbox didn't work.

Since there is a perfectly usable version of Dropbox around, I would suggest the following to Dropbox:

1. Fix the published command-line procedure so that it works. Given that the download works, that ought to be possible.

2. Send a repaired version of nautilus-dropbox to Ubuntu.

But I wonder if the debi installer works some magic that can't be achieved from the command line.