Install Fails on Ubuntu 22.04

[wrishel]

Brand new installation of Ubuntu 22.04
I go to https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux and click on Ubuntu 14.04 - 22.04 (.deb) 64-bit
The file dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb appears in my download directory.
I click on it, expecting Dropbox to install as it does with other linux software
Instead I find archive manager open up offering to extract three files: debian-binary, data.tar.xz, and control.tar.gz
What am I supposed to do next?

[Здравко]

Hi @wrishel,

As seems, wrong file association of deb files. Anyways... You can always install it using command line, like:

sudo dpkg -i dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb

Hope this helps.

[wrishel]

Thanks for the quick response. I guess this meets the programmer's definition of progress, it gets me to a different error message. Dropbox seems to depend on a specific version of libpango but libpango has advanced to a much later version. I'm not sure what to do about this.

$ sudo dpkg -i dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb
[sudo] password for tevs:
(Reading database ... 199121 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking dropbox (2020.03.04) over (2020.03.04) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dropbox:
dropbox depends on libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.36.3); however:
Package libpango1.0-0 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package dropbox (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
dropbox

[Здравко · Accepted solution]

As seems you have already installed Dropbox application (despite partially - probably forcibly - it's never good idea, don't do it). Try finish installation using:

sudo apt-get install dropbox