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skybird182
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Cannot install Dropbox on Ubuntu 2204-3 LTS

I have tried numerous methods to install dropbox. This includes through snap, the choices on the dropbox page, and nautilus-dropbox. There is no toolbar icon for syncing with the web site. The daemon...
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skybird182
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Here is some command lines text. Not sure what this means.

$ ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/don/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-156.4.4908/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/don/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-156.4.4908/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/don/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-156.4.4908/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/don/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-156.4.4908/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/don/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-156.4.4908/apex._apex.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/don/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-156.4.4908/tornado.speedups.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/don/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-156.4.4908/wrapt._wrappers.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/don/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-156.4.4908/PyQt5.QtCore.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/don/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-156.4.4908/PyQt5.QtGui.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/don/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-156.4.4908/PyQt5.QtWidgets.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/don/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-156.4.4908/PyQt5.QtDBus.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'

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wrishel
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Thanks. I'm not sure how to relate that manifest to the steps for installing, but I did find that this worked.

cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -
~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

Thanks.

 

The list that you provided shows up as the output when you execute dropboxd

 

 

 

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