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Can't Install Proprietary Dropbox Daemon Ubuntu 22.04 Linux
I have been trying to install dropbox on my Ubuntu 22.04 Linux machine for a while now. I am able to install the deb package, but after this it says it needs to download the proprietary dropbox daemon. This download takes a long time, it eventually starts to slow down the computer, and then it will eventually time out without completing the download. Does anyone know what could be going on or another way to download the proprietary daemon ?
- As I guessed, you have some network issues. Can you download the link above - https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64 in some way and unpack it in your home folder? After that you should be able run the application, but without network connection it wouldn't work properly, most probably.
Good luck.
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Hi scipio3,
Hm... 🤔 That's sounding really strange. It really needs the daemon to be download on first launch after install; the daemon is not part of the package itself. This is usually not a problem and this task gets handled automatically by the control script, part of the install and responsible for the application launch. Are you sure your internet connection doesn't play some jokes to you? You can do the same by hand, using following command:
dropbox stop && cd ~ && rm -rf .dropbox-dist && curl -L https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64 | tar xzf - && dropbox start
Is it working now, after running the above command line? 😉
Hope this helps.
This is the output I get when I run the command you gave above.
Dropbox isn't running!
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 170 100 170 0 0 135 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 135
91 104M 91 95.5M 0 0 61457 0 0:29:48 0:27:10 0:02:38 64778
curl: (56) OpenSSL SSL_read: error:0A000126:SSL routines::unexpected eof while reading, errno 0gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now- As I guessed, you have some network issues. Can you download the link above - https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64 in some way and unpack it in your home folder? After that you should be able run the application, but without network connection it wouldn't work properly, most probably.
Good luck. Its working now after unpacking the downloaded file into the home directory.
I have the same problem on Linux Mint, it is persistent. The Daemon installer does not start the download. Using the command line, the wget command also hangs. Only a manual download works. I doubt this is a network problem of mine, because it persists across dofferent networks and Linux Mint installations. Could someone contact Dropbox for this?
Nope, download does not start. Thank you anyway. They should really fix the installer.
- I can manually download the link: https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64 with no issues, so it is not a network issue. I am not sure what the problem is. I will try the -v option and report.
TitE wrote:
I can manually download ...
TitE wrote:
Nope, download does not start. ...🤔Are you aware what's going on actually? How are you running curl or wget? Is it manual or no? If they can't work you have some your network' issue! They are NOT part of Dropbox.
Add:
TitE wrote:
...wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64"
hangs. Running:
wget -v https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64
works, but in an insanely slow time. Here's the output:
**bleep**@**bleep**-Lenovo-B580:~$ wget -v https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64
--2023-03-12 17:21:43-- https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64
Razreševanje www.dropbox.com (www.dropbox.com) ... 2620:100:6020:18::a27d:4012, 162.125.64.18
Povezovanje na www.dropbox.com (www.dropbox.com)|2620:100:6020:18::a27d:4012|:443 ... spodletelo: Connection timed out.
Povezovanje na www.dropbox.com (www.dropbox.com)|162.125.64.18|:443 ... povezano.
HTTP zahteva poslana, čakanje na odgovor ... 302 Found
Položaj: https://edge.dropboxstatic.com/dbx-releng/client/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-169.4.5684.tar.gz [spremljanje]
--2023-03-12 17:23:53-- https://edge.dropboxstatic.com/dbx-releng/client/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-169.4.5684.tar.gz
Razreševanje edge.dropboxstatic.com (edge.dropboxstatic.com) ... 2620:100:6020:22::a27d:4016, 162.125.64.22
Povezovanje na edge.dropboxstatic.com (edge.dropboxstatic.com)|2620:100:6020:22::a27d:4016|:443 ... spodletelo: Connection timed out.
Povezovanje na edge.dropboxstatic.com (edge.dropboxstatic.com)|162.125.64.22|:443 ... povezano.
HTTP zahteva poslana, čakanje na odgovor ... 200 OK
Dolžina: 110350680 (105M) [application/gzip]
Shranjevanje v: ‘download?plat=lnx.x86_64’download?plat=lnx.x86_64 100%[=====================================================================================>] 105.24M 6.87MB/s in 15s
2023-03-12 17:26:18 (7.16 MB/s) - ‘download?plat=lnx.x86_64’ shranjeno [110350680/110350680]
...
As can be seen your wget works. 🙂 I'm not so sure what you mean "hangs" above. Do you mean strange symbols flowing through your terminal? 🧐👈 If so😜, it's normal since the option you're using (i.e. -O -) force wget to dump the file content on the terminal, but this file is binary, not text one! Use that wget's option only when you want to chain wget output to some other command (as done in examples you have looked on), but no otherwise. 😉 Or instead second dash, set a proper file name (something like dropbox.tar.gz, for instance); dash means standard output and when no chained, this output defaults to terminal.
Hope this clarifies matter.
