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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 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 ?
- 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.
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.
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 0gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now- 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.
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.
