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sudoluke's avatar
sudoluke
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago
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I cannot install the desktop app on Linux Fedora 37

Gnome 43 has removed libnautilus-extension.so.1 making it impossible to install Dropbox on Fedora 37. Please update the rpm installer to make use of the changes in gnome 43.   For reference: ...
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  • Emmet's avatar
    Emmet
    3 years ago

    Hi there, 

     

    We've spoken to our team, and they've told us that they're aware of a caching issue that causes that endpoint to return invalid 404 errors. They're currently working on a fix for this, but in the meantime, retrying the link should work. 

     

    We also recommend clearing your cache before retrying, as this can assist with some common errors. 

     

    Regards,

     

    Emmet 

Здравко's avatar
Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
4 years ago
Walter wrote:

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For anyone affected who'd like to have a look internally, please let us know here and we'll reach out via email to investigate further. 

Hi Walter,

If someone from your developers in spite available push request want to take a look more close, a good start point is running up to date nautilus and try the Dropbox plugins there. 🙂 Is it working?! Rhetoric, of course. If someone of your developers still don't know what this means... 🤦

Ask you developers instead of users!

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pnyheim
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Just installed Fedora 37 as well and got this issue.

Would like to get feedback on any estimated ETA. Should be easy enough to fix given the provided fix in the github repo.

 

 

  • rg03's avatar
    rg03
    Helpful | Level 5
    4 years ago

    As a fellow developer, it's my understanding the GitHub PR is not a final solution. Likely Dropbox wants to be able to build those sources both for old and new versions of Gnome/Nautilus (depending on the distribution you're running), so there would be some #idfefs involved and changes to the configuration script. Still, it's a very good first step and you can't ask much more from the community. My 2 cents.

  • coreyberla's avatar
    coreyberla
    New member | Level 2
    4 years ago

    I'm the author of the PR.  Dropbox distributes a compiled packages, so an #if wouldn't help.  

     

    nautilus-dropbox hasn't had any activity from Dropbox devs in years, I'm not sure if Dropbox is still interested in maintaining this.  In the meantime, so distros have already included the patch.

  • prajwel's avatar
    prajwel
    Helpful | Level 5
    4 years ago

    Thank you for your work. The dropbox support for Linux is abysmal.

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