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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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- I’m not sure whether my edit can be seen, but just in case, here it is once again: “hangs” means the connection times out for all practical purposes. The problem was my network not supporting IPv6. Using the “—inet4-only” option solves the issue. However, I would have to either edit the installer code or force the wget/curl commands to use IPv4 in their settings somehow to get the automatic installer to work properly. Consider the issue solved, thanks.
In my case, the problem was the max. number of computers that I can install DropBox. Basic free plan allows only three computers connect to DropBox. However, DropBox Daemon installer does not give a warning telling that max. number of computers is reached. So, it stucks at %0 download. Thanks to accepted solution I downloaded the TAR package and was able to identify the problem.
