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prahal's avatar
prahal
New member | Level 2
1 month ago
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Dropbox apt infrastructure relying on unsecure SHA1

When one update its software list with apt on Debian Trixie at least, he gets this error: Err:13 http://linux.dropbox.com/debian sid InRelease Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), ...
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  • Neal's avatar
    Neal
    20 days ago

    Hi prahal​!

    Thanks for sharing this with the Community.

    I've spoken to our team internally and they advised that you need to download and reinstall the latest .deb from our website.

    This has affected a few users but this should fix the issue!

steinarb's avatar
steinarb
Helpful | Level 5
21 days ago

The workaround worked for me as well on debian 13.3 "trixie", amd64.

Here is what I did

Found that /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list had signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/dropbox.asc

deb [arch=i386,amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/dropbox.asc] http://linux.dropbox.com/debian trixie main

Moved away existing /etc/apt/keyrings/dropbox.asc

mv /etc/apt/keyrings/dropbox.asc /etc/apt/keyrings/dropbox.asc.backup

Downloaded the fedora signing key and put it in the place of the old dropbox.asc

curl -s https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc  >/etc/apt/keyrings/dropbox.asc

Tried "apt update" which now ran without error messages                                                                 

root@marquez:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable-backports InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stable-security InRelease
Ign:3 https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable InRelease
Hit:4 https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable Release
Hit:6 https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/pgadmin/pgadmin4/apt/bullseye pgadmin4 InRelease
Hit:7 http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian stable InRelease
Hit:8 http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian stable-updates InRelease
Hit:9 https://dbeaver.io/debs/dbeaver-ce  InRelease
Hit:10 http://linux.dropbox.com/debian trixie InRelease
All packages are up to date.
root@marquez:~#

 

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