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Vicon
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago
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Need to "download proprietary daemon" every time Ubuntu restart.

I have installed Dropbox successfully on Ubuntu 14.04 using the 64-bit .deb installer from from https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux Everything goes well and dropbox has synced all my files proper...
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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    8 years ago

    Sorry to hear about this Vicon!

     

    First off, are you meeting all of our minimum requirements as per this page?

     

    More specifically, Dropbox needs the following software to work on desktop environments:

     

    • Glibc 2.19 or higher
    • GTK 2.24 or higher
    • Glib 2.40 or higher
    • Libappindicator 12.10 or higher
    • Nautilus 3.10.1 or higher

     

    Having said that and as I'd really like to help with this, would you mind trying an advanced reinstall  using this installer to see if this will fix your problem?  In the meantime, you may also want to review this Help Center article too. 

     

    Keep me posted on your findings! 

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eddiesaliba
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

BNPNBXTR you were right!


The solution you proposed is almost perfect. I wrote almost because you need to do more one step.


Your temporary solution was remove "-i" from red line ("Exec = dropbox start -i" to "Exec = dropbox start") in "dropbox.desktop" file as showed below.

 

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Dropbox
GenericName=File Synchronizer
Comment=Sync your files across computers and to the web
Exec=dropbox start
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=dropbox
Categories=Network;FileTransfer;
Keywords=file;synchronization;sharing;collaboration;cloud;storage;backup;
StartupNotify=false

 

To complement this solution, you need change the permissions of "dropbox.desktop" file. Normally, when a file is created, in GNU/Linux, file's permissions are 644 (-rw-r--r--). If file's permissions stay 644, then, Dropbox software overwrites your changes when restarted. Dropbox will put "-i" again in the red line showed above.


But, if you change "dropbox.desktop" file's permitions to 444 (-r--r--r--), then, Dropbox software can't overwrites your changes when restarted.

 

For you change file's permissions, you need to execute this command in directory the file is located:

 

$ chmod 444 dropbox.desktop

 

I know it doens't solve real problem. But, stops appearing that so boring message permanentely.

 

Thanks!

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bnpndxtr
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

@eddiesaliba

Wow yes!  I saw the same thing.  When I tried to remove the -i, I found that Dropbox changed it back again.  I like your approach.  But since I didn't think of that, what I did was to simply note what applications I thought were hammering the system, like insync and spideroak, and added delays to their startup slots.  So to be clear, it is still a workaround- Dropbox has to be first LOL.

  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    Legendary | Level 20
    6 years ago

    On every one run Dropbox application either removes desktop file from autorun (when no selected) or copies dropbox.desktop from applications to autorun. Preventing this action (doesn't matter how) or modifying the source (accordingly) gonna be a workaround. 😉

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