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ngorelen
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago
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dropbox does not start after recent upgrade on gentoo linux

Hi there. I am using dropbox for about 10 years. A few days ago my gentoo linux PC was upgraded its python version to python-3.11. The following i see when i try to start dropbox. Any ideas why?  ...
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  • ngorelen's avatar
    ngorelen
    3 years ago

    Thank you Walter.

    That was the solution i was looking for.

    What i did follows:  install dropboxd diamond, python dropbox.py start -i. 

    This starts at the samet time the dropbox client.

     

    I just had to connect my dropbox account to my computer dropbox location.

     

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Walter
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3 years ago

Thanks for the additional information ngorelen 

 

Could you try following the link from this page to download the python script and let us know how it goes?

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