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nautilus-dropbox : Depends: dropbox but it is not going to be installed

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I was trying to install dropbox on ubuntu 13.10

My first attempt was to follow the steps from official site:

cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -

~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

Also it installed dropbox, I was not able to see the icon on the panel (I tried this post, but the icon has not appeared). In addition to this, I was not starting automatically and I needed to do ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd on each start.

So I uninstalled dropbox with the commands from their website and tried to follow steps described here:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 5044912E

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu precise main"

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox

But this resulted in the following error:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or
been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to
resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: nautilus-dropbox :
Depends: dropbox but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to
correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Any idea how it should be solved?

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answered 1 Year ago lintical · Accepted Answer

First of all, you could use deb http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu saucy main instead of precise, but since all the "versions" of the repository end up in the same package pool, that ought not to change anything.

Now, to your issue. I'm not sure, but since nautilus-dropbox is a transitional package for dropbox, try installing dropbox directly; it might solve your installation problem.

Step by step

First of all, let's assume you haven't downloaded any package from Dropbox's website.

Enable the repository:

Run these lines from the Terminal.

echo 'deb http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu saucy main'>>'dropbox.list'

chmod 644 'dropbox.list'

sudo chown root:root 'dropbox.list'

sudo mv 'dropbox.list' '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list'

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 5044912E

The first line creates a line containing the repository in a file named dropbox.list (note that this uses saucy, but you can use any previous version, as all repos end up in the same package pool). The second and the third give some necessary access and group permissions to the file. The fourth line moves the file to the place all repos are located. Finally, the fifth line adds the Key File so that the repository can be authenticated.

Now, let's install the package:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install dropbox

Now you can launch Dropbox from the application launcher of your choice.