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SmartOM
Explorer | Level 3
8 months ago

Headless Ubuntu installation fails with an error message.

I tried installing Dropobx on my Ubuntu server.  "cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -" works well but when I run "~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd", it thro...
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Jay
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8 months ago

Hi SmartOM, thanks for messaging the Community!

 

As we can't open links for security purposes, could you copy and paste the error log text into your next reply so that we can determine what happened during the startup?

 

This will help me to assist further!

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