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Takeshi1
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

The installation of dropboxd can't be completed on my linux box

Hi. I'm trying to install dropbox on my linux box, which is runnnign Debian 9 (stretch). 1. Download of dropbox $ cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf...
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edwardc
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago

I've essentially the same problem on both Ubuntu 20.04 (Mate) and Mint 20 (Mate), using Dropbox's instruction to download and install:

cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -

~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

 

It hangs at:

dropbox: load fq extension '/home/userid/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-100.4.409/PyQt5.QtDBus.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'

 

FYI, I am attempting to connect to an existing Dropbox account.

Walter's avatar
Walter
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6 years ago

Hi edwardc; thanks for joining our Community and sorry to hear you're having issues with this.

 

There's a similar discussion which provides some pointers in the following link:

 

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-installs-integrations/Unable-to-install-Dropbox-on-Ubuntu-20-04/m-p/405158

 

Could you take a look and let me know if they helped at all?

 

PS: I'm not sure if this would help here, but you can also try running the following command:

 

$ sudo apt install python-gpgme

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    edwardc
    Explorer | Level 3
    6 years ago

    Thanks for the suggestion but sadly, no on both counts.  (BTW, this problem not only shows up on Mint 20 and Ubuntu 20.04 but they were tested on different machines.)

     

    I'm running the release Ubuntu 20.04, not a beta.  In any casem libango isn't part of a repository for Ubuntu 20.04.

    sudo apt-get install libango
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    E: Unable to locate package libango

     

    A similar problem with your suggestion:

    root@euclid-Mac:~#apt install python-gpgme
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    E: Unable to locate package python-gpgme

  • edwardc's avatar
    edwardc
    Explorer | Level 3
    6 years ago

    OK, I've figured out a way to solve my problems and tested it on both Ubuntu 20.04 and Mint 20.

    "Dropbox Headless Install via command line" still doesn't works in some sense this is a workaround.  That is the hang remains with:

           cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -

     But if I download the dropbox .deb, install it, and then run:

          dropbox start -i

    it installs.

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    6 years ago

    Thanks for keeping us in the loop Edward; I'm glad you sorted this out in the end.

     

    See you around the Community! 

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