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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

nicecherub's avatar
nicecherub
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

I am facing the follwoing error and I tried to install libXdamage but failed. Could anyone help to suggest a solution on this? 

 

./dropbox.py update

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In order to use Dropbox, you must download the proprietary daemon. [y/n] y
Downloading Dropbox... 100%
Unpacking Dropbox... 100%dropbox: locating interpreter
dropbox: logging to /tmp/dropbox-antifreeze-JR5ViI
dropbox: initializing
dropbox: initializing python 3.7.5
dropbox: setting program path '/data/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-98.4.158/dropbox'
dropbox: setting python path '/data/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-98.4.158:/data/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-98.4.158/python-packages.zip'
dropbox: python initialized
dropbox: running dropbox
dropbox: setting args
dropbox: applying overrides
dropbox: running main script
dropbox: load fq extension '/data/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-98.4.158/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._constant_time.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/data/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-98.4.158/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/data/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-98.4.158/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/data/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-98.4.158/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/data/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-98.4.158/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/data/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-98.4.158/apex._apex.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/data/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-98.4.158/tornado.speedups.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/data/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-98.4.158/wrapt._wrappers.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/data/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-98.4.158/PyQt5.QtWidgets.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 262, in <module>
File "dropbox/foundation/navigation_service/factory.pyc", line 22, in <module>
File "dropbox/foundation/navigation_service/navigation_service_impl.pyc", line 57, in <module>
File "dropbox/foundation/html_views/electron/manager_factory.pyc", line 14, in <module>
File "dropbox/foundation/html_views/local/common/manager.pyc", line 33, in <module>
File "dropbox/client/features/model_registry.pyc", line 13, in <module>
File "dropbox/client/features/generated_models.pyc", line 286, in <module>
File "dropbox/client/features/previews/view_anchor.pyc", line 106, in <module>
File "<_bootstrap_overrides>", line 153, in load_module
ImportError: libXdamage.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    5 years ago

    Hi nicecherub! Welcome to our Community and sorry for the late response; your post had been caught by our spam filter due too its length.

     

    As your query seems to echo the discussion under this thread, I merged your post here so please feel free to take a look at your covenience and let us know if you have any more questions. 

     

    Specifically, make sure to check the solution offered here. 

     

    Cheers!

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