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Pummelchen
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago
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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...
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    Pummelchen
    7 years ago

    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:

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Pummelchen
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago

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.

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Pummelchen
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago

Same issue with GNOME selected during setup:

 

 

In Debian 9 there was no requirement to install dependencies, it just worked using the deb file.

I manually installed the dependencies recommended above but it does not change anything (https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/desktop/system-requirements#linux)

 

Walter, can you please escalate this to be checked on higher level ? Dropbox on Debian needs to work out of the box, supported or not.

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