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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 dir...
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
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
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
