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Dropbox software needs installation on every startup
I am running Ubuntu 18.04 and on this computer every time I turn on the computer comes another request to install the proprietary software. This is annoying as it should know that the latest version ...
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Jay
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Hi Jay,
I am back to my original problem: Dropbox Installation comes up on each boot.
There is a message: python-gpgme is not installed, we will not be able to verify binary signatures.
Maybe this is the problem?
I looked in synaptic and there is no such thing as python-gpgme. There is python-gpg and it is installed.
Maybe there was once such a thing as python-gpgme and it no longer exists?
I don't really know if this is the problem or not. It just doesn't seem to know that the program already exists.
On Installation use:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y install nautilus-dropbox
This really is a better option compared to what is written in the Linux instructions. In the purge, there is:
sudo apt-get remove nautilus-dropbox
The remove nautilus-dropbox reported that there was no nautilus dropbox, which means the suggested method fails to install it. Clearly the alternate method does indeed install it. Since the alternate method is also simpler, I see no advantage in what is written in the Linux instructions.
I could use the checkbox not to show the message again, but that seems a very poor solution. If you hide the problem, then the problem doesn't exist? Not in my opinion.
The upside of this is that dropbox still does its job. It is annoying, but it works.
I don't have any more ideas to try at the moment. If you can think of something, please let me know.
Ilan
Hi Jay,
I decided it could be a timing problem.
The dialog about installing the dropbox software comes up at the same time as the status bar icon.
Last time, I followed instructions and installed the software.
THEN, I got 2 icons, like I have 2 instances.
This time I decided to press Cancel. I thought it might get stuck at the starting phase, which is fairly long.
After about 30 sec -> 1 min, dropbox came up as up to date.
So it seems like it is prematurely firing off the dialog to update the software, before it has discovered that the software is in place.
In any case, I will now start to hit the Cancel button and ignore the nonsense. It is a bug which needs to be fixed.
Ilan
- Jay
Thanks for the info, I’ve forwarded this to our team for them to look into this matter further!
I'm having this problem too, fyi
