boxfs for Ubuntu Precise Quantal ppa

Do you have a box.com Account. For those who do not know http://www.box.com, it is a cloud storage system just like http://www.dropbox.com but it uses an open standard API called OpenBox API. Domenico Rotiroti wrote a fuse driver called boxfs to mount your box.com account as a filesystem in Linux. Pretty awesome, if you compare it to Dropbox where you only sync from one folder to your Dropbox account. Well anyways over the past weekend I created a ppa repository to install boxfs onto Ubuntu in three easy steps.

• First get python-software-properties (this will give you add-apt-repository)

  sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
  

• Next register my ppa ppa:flazzarini/boxfs (hit ENTER when it asks you to)

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flazzarini/boxfs
  

• Do an update of your apt sources

  sudo apt-get update
  

• And finally install boxfs

  sudo apt-get install boxfs
  

You should have everything you need, to get going. To mount your box.com account do the following.

cd ~
mkdir box.com
boxfs -u YouUsername -p YourPassword box.com/

To unmount simply do

umount ~/box.com/

For any bugs please report them to https://launchpad.net/~flazzarini/+archive/boxfs