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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

zahanmfb's avatar
zahanmfb
New member | Level 2

As described in this support thread, the headless Dropbox client seems to depend on a few graphics libraries, including libglapi-mesa - hence we see the error described when trying to install and start it using just the official installation instructions.

 

ImportError: libglapi.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

Can we get the dev team to fix this such that the headless client doesn't depend on these libraries? I imagine its an unintended dependency.

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Lusil
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4 years ago

Hey zahanmfb, thanks for reaching out. 

 

I moved your post to this thread to keep relevant troubleshooting about this under one discussion, so as to better track your feedback. 

 

Thanks for taking the time to share this with us, and if you have anything else in mind, don't hesitate to get back to us. 

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