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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

marsch's avatar
marsch
New member | Level 2

You are making the user install graphics libraries on a headless system. This answer just makes zero sense for a headless/cli-only install.

Paul243's avatar
Paul243
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

I just spent an hour figuring this out and it seems there is no way to install properly Dropbox on a Debian server. 

The proposed scripts are working but only at first start. Next launch it gets stuck on loading a PyQt5.QtGui.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so library we obviously don't need...

Plus, we're missing command line instructions to define the folders we want to synchronize.

@Dropbox, thank you for fixing this.

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