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Wijnand
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago
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Dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb and Debian Buster

Yesterday I installed Debian Buster on a netbook that is not powerful enough for Windows 10. I tried to install Dropbox but I got an error about python3 and python3-gi not meeting the requirements....
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  • Wijnand's avatar
    Wijnand
    6 years ago

    Hi Здравко , you were right about the 32bit vs 64bit question: allthough both the boot message and the uname command say "amd64" I have a 32bit Debian. I'v got the CLI dropbox working now.

    Thanks for your help.

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
6 years ago

Wait for a moment, are you running on 32-bit or 64-bit platform? To be honest, I don't understand fully everything in the common text, but as could be seen, your system install 32-bit version of the packages by default. This is normal for 32-bit Linux install setup. In this context, why you try install 64-bit Dropbox application? Try download and install 32-bit version (as seems your Linux platform).

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Wijnand
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

uname -m gives "x86_64"

 

I tried yid your commandline again with ":amd64" padded to all packages, but no difference.

  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    Legendary | Level 20
    6 years ago

    Wow... That's strange. Something got wrong with your system setup. From now on, I can only speculate what the reason could be. Try check, one by one, availability for every one of the required packages (which I listed above), using "dpkg-query -s <package name>".  Check for (and install if missing) both 32 and 64 bit package versions. Otherwise you can try install/copy the two important files from the Dropbox package by hand (the nautils plugin and the control script), which would be enough (the desktop file for convenient starting, also). I can't say anything more.

    Good luck.

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