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dpeebles's avatar
dpeebles
Helpful | Level 6
8 months ago

Dropbox needs to update the required Fedora repository.

Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this.  This is just a heads up that Fedora Linux was updated earlier this week to 42 and so the Dropbox Fedora repository is now producing error messages ...
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Conductor's avatar
Conductor
Helpful | Level 6
6 months ago

So you deleted the dropbox repo to resolve the conflict?

dpeebles's avatar
dpeebles
Helpful | Level 6
6 months ago

I deleted Dropbox from the rpmfusion repo and then reinstalled it using 

sudo dnf install dropbox --repo=Dropbox

to make sure it came from the official Dropbox repo.  I then had to include these two lines in the rpmfusion-nonfree.repo file to avoid further conflicts

exclude=dropbox
exclude=nautilus-dropbox

 

  • Conductor's avatar
    Conductor
    Helpful | Level 6
    6 months ago

    So what you have done is ensure Dropbox is the sole source for the application. I've done the opposite, deleting the Dropbox repo from rpmfusion so that everything comes from Fedora (actually Flatpak). While it takes several minutes for the tray icon to wake up after a reboot, it does eventually do so ... maybe 30 minutes after the reboot. And Dropbox is v. 226.3.5047 -- which is also the version that I saw shortly after installing the 225.x.xxxx version directly from Dropbox a few days ago.

    Dropbox works with little friction in KDE Plasma (Fedora 42). It's only the GNOME edition (Workstation) where I have these issues. I sometimes wonder whether the Dropbox developers are thinking that there's only so much effort they will expend to make Dropbox work in the multitude of Linux flavors/filesystems for the 4% of users, while the Fedora and GNOME (especially GNOME) developers are saying that keeping cutting edge development is our mission, and external developers and users will just have to cope. Would be nice to have a meeting of the two, but, of course, there's no time.

     

  • dpeebles's avatar
    dpeebles
    Helpful | Level 6
    6 months ago

    I'm using KDE on Fedora 42 and Dropbox works fine.  I did have to install nautilus-extensions and libgnome as well though but I've now upgraded to Dropbox 225 (the rpmfusion version is still 224). I don't really use Flatpak apps apart from Spotify.  That's a long time to wait for the tray icon to wake up.  I don't think I could live with that. 

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