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Albert25's avatar
Albert25
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

Headless install on Debian: libglapi.so.0: cannot open shared object file

I tried this on support, but didn't get a useful reply, so I hope someone here knows the answer. On a Linux Debian 10 ("buster") headless server, I tried to follow the instructions at https://www...
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  • salven's avatar
    salven
    5 years ago

    Hello Albert25 ,

     I just tried and made it work today on Ubuntu Server 18.04.4 LTS. As mentioned, the requirements are not fully met by default, so here is the list of what I had to additionally install (you probably alreayd have libc6):

     

    sudo apt-get install libc6
sudo apt-get install libglapi-mesa
sudo apt-get install libxdamage1
sudo apt-get install libxfixes3
sudo apt-get install libxcb-glx0
sudo apt-get install libxcb-dri2-0
sudo apt-get install libxcb-dri3-0
sudo apt-get install libxcb-present0
sudo apt-get install libxcb-sync1
sudo apt-get install libxshmfence1
sudo apt-get install libxxf86vm1

     

    After that, I had to make sure of the following:

     

    sudo chown "$USER" "$HOME"
sudo chown -R "$USER" ~/Dropbox ~/.dropbox
sudo chattr -R -i ~/Dropbox
sudo chmod -R u+rw ~/Dropbox ~/.dropbox

     

    and that seemed to do the trick. You may need to adapt few things here and there.

     

    Hope it helps.

    Salvo

anonymous's avatar
anonymous

I just used the same instructions for Debian 10 and it worked for my headless server.  This has changed, as I set up a Debian server last week using the exact same download and it worked fine.

 

cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -
~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd    ## Bunch of errors here
sudo apt install libc6
sudo apt install libglapi-mesa
sudo apt install libxdamage1
sudo apt install libxfixes3
sudo apt install libxcb-glx0
sudo apt install libxcb-dri2-0
sudo apt install libxcb-dri3-0
sudo apt install libxcb-present0
sudo apt install libxcb-sync1
sudo apt install libxshmfence1
sudo apt install libxxf86vm1
~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd  ## Worked fine
spacebingo's avatar
spacebingo
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

I also needed to add libglib2.0-0 (Debian 10).

  • The Duke In Purple's avatar
    The Duke In Purple
    New member | Level 2
    5 years ago

    I can only hope that the dev team will change this again as I have a use case of the CLI running in environments where it's just not viable to install X Server related libraries. It's just unnecessary.

    Please, make a Linux Desktop App and a pure CLI version so everyone can choose what they need but don't force users to install libs they don't need for a function they don't use in a tool that has one job only. Sync files.

    I get it, the linux share of users is probably small, but that shouldn't cause you to treat them and their very specific needs worse.

    CLI worked, as it was, very well. At the very least, please allow us to run the older version without it autoupdating and then failing because it suddenly "needs" new libs. It's just very frustrating.

    • autobot's avatar
      autobot
      Helpful | Level 5
      5 years ago

      I just found a disk completely filled with upgrade files on a small server that uses headless dropbox service. I assume it broke and kept trying and failing to upgrade a previously working installation. The files it was getting then leaving were like:

      1043520 96252 -rwxr-xr-x   1 autobot  nogroup  98561877 Apr  3 22:11 Dropbox/.dropbox.cache/tmp_dirs/18cca87d08171623cd379d43355c5230/dropbox-upgrade-94.4.384.tar.gz
657286 96252 -rwxr-xr-x   1 autobot  nogroup  98561877 Apr 15 19:19 Dropbox/.dropbox.cache/tmp_dirs/8e2c186a1116c0b40ea13b8e10888fd3/dropbox-upgrade-94.4.384.tar.gz
657348 96500 -rwxr-xr-x   1 autobot  nogroup  98809031 Apr 18 14:32 Dropbox/.dropbox.cache/tmp_dirs/ac1f62c0c4a89a96edc738cd966b3637/dropbox-upgrade-95.4.441.tar.gz
657344 96500 -rwxr-xr-x   1 autobot  nogroup  98809031 Apr 18 10:55 Dropbox/.dropbox.cache/tmp_dirs/516bdd1096660ad2bd1467de1ba12704/dropbox-upgrade-95.4.441.tar.gz

      After installing the extra deps, it's back to normal the new upgrade file it downloaded disappeared.

       

      I can't understand why is the CLI version is dependent on any X server libraries at all. Surely it should be the other way around: the GUI version depending on both X and CLI version.

       

      I already had to write a script because the auto-updater litters the home dir with hidden .dropbox-dist-old-* directories:

      #!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/find /home/autobot/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '.dropbox-dist-old-*' -printf "%T@\t%p\n" | /usr/bin/sort -nr | /usr/bin/cut -f 2 | /usr/bin/tail -n +3 | /usr/bin/xargs -r rm -r

      (keeps the latest two, written to be run from cron.)

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