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Have to run dropbox with `~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd`, why not just dropbox?

rated 0 times [ 1] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 5108 / 2 Years ago, tue, june 21, 2022, 8:57:45

I've had nemo file manager with the dropbox extension but after the problem of nemo 2.0 that couldn't render the desktop properly, I removed both of them, and installed nautilus.

Now, I am trying to install dropbox with nautilus, when running sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox I am getting this:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: nautilus-dropbox :
Depends: dropbox E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken
packages.

I followed the directions here but I am getting the above error.
After that, I ran this cd ~ && wget -O - "http://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf - as mentioned in the comments of the reply and successfuly ran dropbox daemon with this ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd.

I know that to run dropbox from now on, I will create a new entry at the startup applications with this command ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd.

But my question is, why can't I install it normally and run it with dropbox start command?

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answered 2 Years ago thellfi · Accepted Answer

The package manager (apt) failed to install nautilus-dropbox because it depend on package dropbox, the main software, but didn't find it in the package list. Note that nautilus-dropbox is just a nautilus extension. Usually 3rd party softwares are not included into software sources of an OS due to security reason. In that case we need to manually add it to software sources. PPA are commenly used for this. After successfully updating the sources we can install software without problem using the following command. sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox. AFAIK there is no PPA for it. They have an online installer package which can be downloadable From here. After completing the installation you can use the earlier command to install nautilus-dropbox.

In your case dropbox is not installed to the system. It's a kind of copying, as we use a portable software. So the system is unaware of the program. If you want to launch it with a single command run the following command.

sudo ln -s /home/$USER/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd /usr/bin/dropboxd