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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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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
7 years ago

Hi everybody,

That's a Dropbox control script bug, I have signaled about long time ago, but seems nobody take care about, for long time. One other simple workaround is turn off "Start Dropbox on system startup" and start it by hand every time.

Hope this cast some light.

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trdat
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It works for me!

sudo apt-get install python3-gpg

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