Installing Dropbox on your EC2 machine ====================================== **IMPORTANT: Dropbox will sync everything you have to your EC2 machine, so if you are already using Dropbox for a lot of stuff, you might want to create a separate Dropbox account just for the course.** Start at the login prompt on your EC2 machine:: cd /root Then, grab the latest dropbox installation package for Linux:: wget -O dropbox.tar.gz "http://www.dropbox.com/download/?plat=lnx.x86_64" Unpack it:: tar -xvzf dropbox.tar.gz Make the Dropbox directory on /mnt and link it in:: mkdir /mnt/Dropbox ln -fs /mnt/Dropbox /root ln -fs /mnt/Dropbox /home/ubuntu and then run it:: /root/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd & When you get a message saying "this client is not linked to any account", copy/paste the URL into browser and go log in. Voila!