Unable to install Dropbox on Ubuntu 20.04

Hi Xavier-G; welcome to the Dropbox Community!

It seems like the operating system you are running is not currently a fully tested or supported environment for the Dropbox desktop application (from what I gather, it will be out officially on the 23rd of April, 2020). You can see a list of our system requirements here:

• https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/desktop/system-requirements 

While we support a variety of operating systems, we are unable to support these versions until they are officially classified as stable.

I'm sorry I can’t provide support for our desktop app when run on an unsupported operating system and I'll make sure to pass your comments on to our dev team.

What I'd suggest, for now, is to keep an eye on our system requirements page for updates about new supported operating systems.

I hope this clears things up and I'm always around if you have any more questions. 

Thanks for your help, yes it seems due to a a problem of package name, but it has been identified and should (I hope) been resolved soon :

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/focal-changes/2020-March/016186.html

Just launch:

sudo dpkg --ignore-depends=libpango1.0-0 -i dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb

It works, thanks a lot for your help ! :grinning:

And no need to reconnect nor re-do all the synchronization (I don't use the default folder), all was still registered, perfect.

Hi,

I't not a temporary change. In Debian the package libpango1.0-0 was changed to transitional package in 2013 which depended on libpango-1.0-0 and now the transitional package has been dropped from the archive.

Dropbox should change the dependency to libpango-1.0-0

https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/pango/-/blob/debian/master/debian/changelog

Hi anonymous,

Yes, You are absolutely right; that what you say is upcoming bug (if Dropbox won't take care, as usual)! Let hope this time the status won't be broken application and after that some action, but... we will see.

Just to note, the topic was about something related (somehow), not the same! So the discussed change is temporary (most probably).

Anyway... Good warning!

https://manjaro.site/install-dropbox-on-ubuntu-19-10/

fix libpango dependancies with 

sudo apt-get -f install

This issue still has not been fixed on Ubuntu 20.04 despite its official release.

@Durin Yes, they absolutely should. But I didn't want to wait around for them, so I used equivs to build and install a temporary replacement for the missing transitional package:

apt install equivs
mkdir /tmp/pkg
cd /tmp/pkg
cat <<EOF >>libpango1.0-0
Package: libpango1.0-0
Version: 1.44.7-4
Depends: libpango-1.0-0
EOF
equivs-build libpango1.0-0
apt install ./libpango1.0-0_1.44.7-4_all.deb
apt-mark auto libpango1.0-0

after which Dropbox installed without complaint. With any luck, that apt-mark auto will mean that once Dropbox does get its act together and stops depending on packages deprecated seven years ago, apt will clean up all by itself and let me forget I even had to do this .