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wrishel's avatar
wrishel
New member | Level 2
12 months ago

Install Fails on Ubuntu 22.04

Brand new installation of Ubuntu 22.04
I go to https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux and click on Ubuntu 14.04 - 22.04 (.deb) 64-bit
The file dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb appears in my download directory.
I click on it, expecting Dropbox to install as it does with other linux software
Instead I find archive manager open up offering to extract three files: debian-binary, data.tar.xz, and control.tar.gz
What am I supposed to do next?

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  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    12 months ago

    As seems you have already installed Dropbox application (despite partially - probably forcibly - it's never good idea, don't do it). Try finish installation using:

    sudo apt-get install dropbox

     

  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    Legendary | Level 20
    12 months ago

    Hi wrishel,

    As seems, wrong file association of deb files. Anyways... You can always install it using command line, like:

    sudo dpkg -i dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb

    Hope this helps.

    • wrishel's avatar
      wrishel
      New member | Level 2
      12 months ago

      Thanks for the quick response. I guess this meets the programmer's definition of progress, it gets me to a different error message. Dropbox seems to depend on a specific version of libpango but libpango has advanced to a much later version. I'm not sure what to do about this.

       

      $ sudo dpkg -i dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb
      [sudo] password for tevs:
      (Reading database ... 199121 files and directories currently installed.)
      Preparing to unpack dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb ...
      Unpacking dropbox (2020.03.04) over (2020.03.04) ...
      dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dropbox:
      dropbox depends on libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.36.3); however:
      Package libpango1.0-0 is not installed.

      dpkg: error processing package dropbox (--install):
      dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
      Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1ubuntu1) ...
      Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu3) ...
      Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1ubuntu3) ...
      Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
      Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-1) ...
      Errors were encountered while processing:
      dropbox

      • Здравко's avatar
        Здравко
        Legendary | Level 20
        12 months ago

        As seems you have already installed Dropbox application (despite partially - probably forcibly - it's never good idea, don't do it). Try finish installation using:

        sudo apt-get install dropbox

         

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