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Linux panel icon won't launch Dropbox website
On Linux, right clicking the Dropbox panel icon and selecting Launch Dropbox website does not work.
It creates a file in /tmp called something like dropbox-antifreeze-6bajuC and tries to run it.
There are two problems with this.
1) The first line of the file is blank making automatic file type identification fail
2) The file is identified as a perl script and opens in kate.
Removing the leading blank line and adding a .html extension to the file name of a temporarily saved copy of the file makes it work as expected.
Since it's not remotely a perl file, I can't change my file type options in properties without potentially breaking a bunch of things,
How do I fix this?
kubuntu 18.04 Linux/KDE 5.47.0/Qt 5.9.5
Hi josephj11,
That's look really old. Seems you haven't set up Dropbox repository. That's why the control script and plugin can't get updated automatically. At the beginning install the latest package. It will take care for the repository settings for you. In advance might be better uninstall the current package. Execute following command in terminal before first run of the just installed package content (or might be better before install it):
rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist
At the end of this step run just installed application and repeat the command from my previous post. Let's hope the output will be 'better' now. 😉 Post it.
josephj11 wrote:... I don't have Nautilus installed. I use Dolphin which is the KDE equivalent.
Yes and no!
1. Yes - it's a KDE equivalent and have almost same features.
2. No - Nautilus and Dolphin plugins are NOT directly interchangeable! Compatibility library is usually needed, if the particular plugin isn't designed for such work, as the Dropbox plugin. But you probably know this.
- Jay
Dropbox Staff
Hi josephj11, thanks for posting today!
Currently, the Dropbox desktop application is officially supported on Ubuntu and Fedora, and not variations on it like kubuntu.
Does the Linux installation match the requirements from this article?
Any info you can provide would be great!
Hi josephj11,
You didn't mention what exactly is your Dropbox versions (yes - plural). Can you post the result from following command:
dropbox version; dpkg-query -W dropbox
🤔 Let see what are your Dropbox application version, command control script version, and the plugin version for Nautilus.
Jay, Just for info: Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, etc... are different names of the same distribution!!! In this context what is the meaning of "not variations on it like kubuntu"??? 🧐 What is different actually? 🤔 Same kernel, same libraries, same repository, same packaging system, etc... The distinction between different "variations" is the chosen set of preinstalled packages, nothing more! And, of course, follows the different lookings and feelings. Doesn't matter what "variations" exactly you have installed in advance; in all case if you want to change something don't have to reinstall anew, but just add the coresponding packages existing in Kubuntu for example but missing in Ubuntu... and voila. In every one moment you can install every one package available on Canonical repository into every one "variation", without limitations. Can you clarify for me from the view point of Dropbox (and more generally of any software) what's the difference between Ubuntu and Kubuntu, for example (or any other "variation")? 🤔 Rhetorical question, of course!
dropbox version; dpkg-query -W dropbox
dropbox 2015.10.28dropbox 2015.10.28
Thanks for your reply.
That looks really old, but I install all updates I get as soon as they come in.
kubuntu exists (primarily) because it comes installed with KDE. I don't have Nautilus installed. I use Dolphin which is the KDE equivalent.
