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SmartOM
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Headless Ubuntu installation fails with an error message.

I tried installing Dropobx on my Ubuntu server.  "cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -" works well but when I run "~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd", it thro...
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Jay's avatar
Jay
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2 years ago

Thanks for the information. Could you try the steps in this thread and solution regarding the missing 'libglapi.so.0' file?

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SmartOM
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Hi @Jay

 

Its still failing, but this time with another error:

b'!! (Qt:Fatal) This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb".\n\nAvailable platform plugins are: xcb.\n\nReinstalling the application may fix this problem.'
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    Megan
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    2 years ago

    Hey SmartOM, have you also tried performing an advanced re-install by any chance? 

     

    If not, please feel free to give this a go. 

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      SmartOM
      Explorer | Level 3
      2 years ago

      Hi @Megan

       

      Yes I tried that already, didn't work.

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