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

[Takeshi1]

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 -


2. Installation (tsuyama means my account)
~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

dropbox: locating interpreter
dropbox: logging to /tmp/dropbox-antifreeze-dpL0Tx
dropbox: initializing
dropbox: initializing python 3.5.4
dropbox: setting program path '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/dropbox'
dropbox: setting home path '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93'
dropbox: setting python path '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93:/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/python-packages-35.zip'
dropbox: python initialized
dropbox: running dropbox
dropbox: setting args
dropbox: applying overrides
dropbox: running main script
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._constant_time.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/linuxffi.pthread._linuxffi_pthread.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/cpuid.compiled._cpuid.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/linuxffi.fcntl._linuxffi_fcntl.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/linuxffi.sys.compiled._linuxffi_sys.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/linuxffi.resolv.compiled._linuxffi_resolv.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/tornado.speedups.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/linuxffi.gnu.compiled._linuxffi_gnu.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/posixffi.libc._posixffi_libc.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/librsyncffi.compiled._librsyncffi.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
 Dropbox ...
https://www.dropbox.com/cli_link_nonce?nonce=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


3. I open the above URL, and I login successfully with my Dropbox account.

4. But, the below message is shown, and the installation seems to be freezed.
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/tsuyama/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-59.4.93/PyQt5.QtCore.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'

My question is how to fix this problem. Any idea?

[Walter]

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...

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

[edwardc]

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]

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]

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

See you around the Community!