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boxquestioner
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

Proprietary daemon and python-gpgme

Hi, I try to install Dropbox on Linux. When I clicked on the Dropbox icon or visited www.dropbox.com/download, I got a message: In order to use Dropbox, you must download the proprietary daemon. No...
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jonaseberle
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

Hi, it's on Ubuntu 18.04 using the official .deb-package dropbox:2015.10.28 .

python-gpgme is obsolete, the successor is python-gpg (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-dropbox/+bug/1759984)

This box is shown on every start. The daemon IS installed. One can click "cancel" here - dropbox runs just fine.

It would be nice if it was not shown, though...

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An_Laoch
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

This morning I booted my laptop running 

~ $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	LinuxMint
Description:	Linux Mint 19 Tara
Release:	19
Codename:	tara

I was presented with a dropbox message saying that the package python-pgpme was not installed and Dropbox couldn't work without it. Ubuntu dropped python-pgpme in favour of python-pgp some time back and python-pgpme is no longer available in the repositories.

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