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Unable install Dropbox in my new Dell AIO with UBUNTU 20.04LTS
I just bought a Dell Optiplex 7400 All-in-One with pre-installed OS UBUNTU 20.04 LTS. I tried to install dropbox which is a must for but unable to do so. It says: "trouble connecting dropbox servers...
Hi shibananda,
Do something like following (step by step - line by line):
$ curl -L https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/ubuntu/dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb > ~/dropbox.deb $ sudo apt-get install ~/dropbox.deb $ rm ~/dropbox.deb $ dropbox stop $ rm -rf ~/.dropbox* $ dropbox start -i
Execute all commands as they are - without any change, in the same order. After the last command you will be invited to authorize the application. Does the Dropbox application work now? 🧐 If any error appears, post the exact appearing in the terminal (together with commands and results - including the error text).
Good luck.
Hi ferrous,
The warnings, you received in terminal, denote some "old fashion" practices still used by Dropbox are already deprecated. This is not an issue yet; in spite deprecated, they are still NOT dropped.
You description sounds like one other OLD bug, I signaled long time ago, but it's still not addressed. Better don't rely the issue to be addressed; Linux is NOT first class "citizen" here, as you probably know already. Try some workarounds to avoid starting multiple instances simultaneously (the work environment can start in such way to guarantee that every particular application wont stay stopped - including Dropbox); try to avoid to simultaneous running, at least (i.e. delay) - Dropbox application is buggy one and cannot avoid multiple instances to run, so falls in deadlock.
Good luck.
Thanks, but none of that solves my continuing problem!
It worked fine before I reinstalled Ubuntu. 😞
