Can't Install Proprietary Dropbox Daemon Ubuntu 22.04 Linux

[scipio3]

 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 daemon.  This download takes a long time, it eventually starts to slow down the computer, and then it will eventually time out without completing the download. Does anyone know what could be going on or another way to download the proprietary daemon ?

[Здравко]

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@TitE wrote:
I can manually download ...

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@TitE wrote:
Nope, download does not start. ...

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🤔Are you aware what's going on actually? How are you running curl or wget? Is it manual or no? If they can't work you have some your network' issue! They are NOT part of Dropbox.

Add:

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@TitE wrote:
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wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64"

hangs. Running:

wget -v https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64

works, but in an insanely slow time. Here's the output:

**bleep**@**bleep**-Lenovo-B580:~$ wget -v https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64
--2023-03-12 17:21:43-- https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64
Razreševanje www.dropbox.com (www.dropbox.com) ... 2620:100:6020:18::a27d:4012, 162.125.64.18
Povezovanje na www.dropbox.com (www.dropbox.com)|2620:100:6020:18::a27d:4012|:443 ... spodletelo: Connection timed out.
Povezovanje na www.dropbox.com (www.dropbox.com)|162.125.64.18|:443 ... povezano.
HTTP zahteva poslana, čakanje na odgovor ... 302 Found
Položaj: https://edge.dropboxstatic.com/dbx-releng/client/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-169.4.5684.tar.gz [spremljanje]
--2023-03-12 17:23:53-- https://edge.dropboxstatic.com/dbx-releng/client/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-169.4.5684.tar.gz
Razreševanje edge.dropboxstatic.com (edge.dropboxstatic.com) ... 2620:100:6020:22::a27d:4016, 162.125.64.22
Povezovanje na edge.dropboxstatic.com (edge.dropboxstatic.com)|2620:100:6020:22::a27d:4016|:443 ... spodletelo: Connection timed out.
Povezovanje na edge.dropboxstatic.com (edge.dropboxstatic.com)|162.125.64.22|:443 ... povezano.
HTTP zahteva poslana, čakanje na odgovor ... 200 OK
Dolžina: 110350680 (105M) [application/gzip]
Shranjevanje v: ‘download?plat=lnx.x86_64’

download?plat=lnx.x86_64 100%[=====================================================================================>] 105.24M 6.87MB/s in 15s

2023-03-12 17:26:18 (7.16 MB/s) - ‘download?plat=lnx.x86_64’ shranjeno [110350680/110350680]

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As can be seen your wget works. 🙂 I'm not so sure what you mean "hangs" above. Do you mean strange symbols flowing through your terminal? 🧐👈 If so😜, it's normal since the option you're using (i.e. -O -) force wget to dump the file content on the terminal, but this file is binary, not text one! Use that wget's option only when you want to chain wget output to some other command (as done in examples you have looked on), but no otherwise. 😉 Or instead second dash, set a proper file name (something like dropbox.tar.gz, for instance); dash means standard output and when no chained, this output defaults to terminal.

Hope this clarifies matter.

[TitE]

I’m not sure whether my edit can be seen, but just in case, here it is once again: “hangs” means the connection times out for all practical purposes. The problem was my network not supporting IPv6. Using the “—inet4-only” option solves the issue. However, I would have to either edit the installer code or force the wget/curl commands to use IPv4 in their settings somehow to get the automatic installer to work properly. Consider the issue solved, thanks.

[bariserkus]

In my case, the problem was the max. number of computers that I can install DropBox. Basic free plan allows only three computers connect to DropBox. However, DropBox Daemon installer does not give a warning telling that max. number of computers is reached. So, it stucks at %0 download. Thanks to accepted solution I downloaded the TAR package and was able to identify the problem.