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scipio3
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Can't Install Proprietary Dropbox Daemon Ubuntu 22.04 Linux

 I have been trying to install dropbox on my Ubuntu 22.04 Linux machine for a while now. I am able to install the deb package, but after this it says it needs to download the proprietary dropbox daem...
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  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    2 years ago
    As I guessed, you have some network issues. Can you download the link above - https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64 in some way and unpack it in your home folder? After that you should be able run the application, but without network connection it wouldn't work properly, most probably.
    Good luck.
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
2 years ago

Hi scipio3,

Hm... 🤔 That's sounding really strange. It really needs the daemon to be download on first launch after install; the daemon is not part of the package itself. This is usually not a problem and this task gets handled automatically by the control script, part of the install and responsible for the application launch. Are you sure your internet connection doesn't play some jokes to you? You can do the same by hand, using following command:

dropbox stop && cd ~ && rm -rf .dropbox-dist && curl -L https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64 | tar xzf - && dropbox start

Is it working now, after running the above command line? 😉

Hope this helps.

  • scipio3's avatar
    scipio3
    Helpful | Level 5
    2 years ago

    This is the output I get when I run the command you gave above.

     

    Dropbox isn't running!
    % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
    Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
    100 170 100 170 0 0 135 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 135
    91 104M 91 95.5M 0 0 61457 0 0:29:48 0:27:10 0:02:38 64778
    curl: (56) OpenSSL SSL_read: error:0A000126:SSL routines::unexpected eof while reading, errno 0

    gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
    tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
    tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

    • Здравко's avatar
      Здравко
      Legendary | Level 20
      2 years ago
      As I guessed, you have some network issues. Can you download the link above - https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64 in some way and unpack it in your home folder? After that you should be able run the application, but without network connection it wouldn't work properly, most probably.
      Good luck.
      • scipio3's avatar
        scipio3
        Helpful | Level 5
        2 years ago

        Its working now after unpacking the downloaded file into the home directory.

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