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Anghellos
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

I'm getting an error message "Could not start the Dropbox daemon" for a Fedora 31 install.

Hello, I tried to install dropbox on my fresh installation of Fedora 31. The error that i got is "Could not start the dropbox daemon" if i run the installation on terminal i got additional details ...
  • acquitar's avatar
    acquitar
    5 years ago

    Hi, I just used this command on my Fedora 31 Workstaion before installing Dropbox. The Dropbox daemon starts successfully now, and the sync function works well.

    sudo dnf install libatomic

    Now the only problem is the tray icon keeps showing "Connecting...", but it does not affect the running.

     

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