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Dropbox GUI gone after Debian 10 Buster Upgrade
Hello, I used to run Debian 9.x with Kernel 5.1.x with GNOME desktop and Dropbox GUI installed from the Dropbox website (deb file). Usually in the bottom left corner there was a little box to find...
Solution found:
Disable GNOME Extension TopIcons Plus and instead install and enable gnome-shell-extension-appindicator, reboot, done.
https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator
Seems that TopIcons Plus is not working in Debian 10 due to the newer GNOME version.
Thanks to everyone with ideas and suggestions ! :innocent:
Seems to be a more serious issue:
I made a fresh new clean installtion of Debian 10 in VMware using these steps
- boot from debian-10.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso
- in the "Software Selection" page, unselect everything (nothing ticked)
- finished setup and login as su
- Install GNOME with: apt install gnome-core
- boot into to GNOME desktop
- Download latest Dropbox deb file, install, and confirm the Dropbox website authorization
- Start Dropbox
Same issue now, you can see Dropbox running and beeing very busy, but no icon is visible anywhere.
I will test one more thing, by ticking GNOME as the Desktop choice in "Software Selection". So I will reinstall on a clean formatted disk and report back.
Opp... Hmm... Pummelchen,
One note here. The Dropbox debian package is little bit buggy :dizzy_face:. There are no any dependencies ceclared! So, You have to ensure that everything declared in system dependencies page is installed, the package manager can't ensure this (dependencies - missing)!
Nonetheless, what about direct mapping? It's much more convenient (at least I think so). You wouldn't need to install anything.
Thx for your suggestions. Yes, compared to Windows it is a nightmare to get Dropbox working on Linux.
Direct mapping doesnt work if you share the Dropbox folder over SMB/FTP in a LAN where thousands of files are moved per day. The mapping software (like Expandrive, NetDrive etc.) at some point will get messed up. The Dropbox client itself, can keep up with that quite well. Rsync may work but I really want the original Dropbox GUI to make things simple to manage.
I use Dropbox in Ubuntu and (if we ignore the relatively bad support) it work fine.
Seem I wasn't clear enough about the mapping. I haven't used VmWare, but in VirtualBox, for example, without using any external tools, You cat select some folder in host file system and map content as content of a virtual drive in the virtual machine. I don't believe that in VmWare missing such functionality. In such a way single Dropbox installation (per real machine) can serve multiple Os-es, without additional Dropbox installations at all. That's what I mean.
Yes, you can do the same in VMware. However my scenario is different:
Host OS only uses Dropbox to sync VMware machines. One Debian VM syncs all Dropbox data (except the VMware machines) and provides that Dropbox folder to the LAN via SMB/FTP. Having Dropbox on each server/workstation creates a mess, so we switched to a centralized solution with SMB/FTP and use 1 Dropbox instance as a background cloud sync.
The benefit is that the VMware host can crash, and I can quickly deploy the Dropbox VM to a new server and do not need to resync everything. Its much faster to manage a LAN this way.
Solution found:
Disable GNOME Extension TopIcons Plus and instead install and enable gnome-shell-extension-appindicator, reboot, done.
https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator
Seems that TopIcons Plus is not working in Debian 10 due to the newer GNOME version.
Thanks to everyone with ideas and suggestions ! :innocent:
