Tip Top Tips: How To Install Copy Agent In PCLinuxOS

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This month's tip comes from PCLinuxOS forum member Agent Smith.

I had to find another storage provider in the "cloud." DropBox is becoming quite restrictive, so to speak.

I found Copy (http://www.copy.com/), a provider that I found very good. 15 GB free, from the start, with the possibility to increase with references.

Copy Agent has a native client for Linux. It's available for 32 or 64 bit OS architectures, is very cool, easy to setup, and works very well.

But, since it has no installer, we have to follow this simple recipe to add it to our PCLinuxOS system.

1. Signup for an account here.

2. Then, download the linux client: https://copy.com/install/linux/Copy.tgz

3. Expand the tgz file. A folder, copy, is created.

4. As root, copy this folder into the folder /opt.

5. Create a .desktop file with your favorite plain text editor. You can call it copy.desktop.

6. The contents of this file should be:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Copy Agent
Comment=Share Files
Exec=/opt/copy/x86/CopyAgent (note this line - If your system is a 64 bit one, this line should be: /opt/copy/x86_64/CopyAgent)
Icon=Copy-FB.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Categories=GTK;Network;X-MandrivaLinux-Internet-RemoteAccess;

7. Copy the icon from here to /usr/share/pixmaps (you must do this as root).

8. Copy the .desktop file to /usr/share/applications (which also must be done as root).

9. And voila, the Copy Agent icon will appear in your start menu, in the Internet section.

I hope you enjoy the gigabytes of free storage from Copy.com.