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I'm trying to install the app in Linux but it fails.
Good evening
I'm trying to install your app in linux using dropbox-dbgsym_2024.04.17_amd64.deb
Installation starts ok, then I'm asked to accept a proprietary blob. I accept. The installa...
Hi keithrboz,
Try following: https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/ubuntu/dropbox_2024.04.17_amd64.deb
Hope this helps.
I have tried to install that .deb several times. It is the .deb that asks for permission to add the proprietary dongle.
The error messages indicate to me that it wants to add something to ~ /home/keith. The permission denied indicates that it is trying to execute some process - but /home/keith is on a partition which forbids execution of anything.
How to I get the dongle onto an exec partition? PLEASE
keithrboz wrote:... The permission denied indicates that it is trying to execute some process - but /home/keith is on a partition which forbids execution of anything.
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Yes, ugly design decision of Dropbox application developers to install the application in users home folders, unfortunately. It's so and it won't change (not soon at least). Either find a way to change your home folder mount options (to let executive content) or select another place of your home folder where partition mount allow executive content. Dropbox won't change this for you.
keithrboz wrote:...
How to I get the dongle onto an exec partition? ...
keithrboz, Most probably you don't understand what partition means. 🙂 So, most probably you don't understand my previous explanation. The dongle is a partition (one or more) itself. So you cannot get it on another partition. Your question sounds like: How to I get the dongle onto other dongle? Or something like. You may change the dongle' partition mount settings though! If you cannot yet understand this, ask somebody near you for help.
Good luck.
Firstly, thank you for the advice that dropbox aren't likely to re-write the installer for linux to allow it to work properly - ie, not just dumped into ~
Now for the suggestion that I don't now what a partition is. My internal drive has 7 partitions on it, including /boot/efi. I have designated 3 of them as noexec, in /etc/fstab. I also have 2 external drives mounted automatically through /etc/fstab. I'm not sure I could have done this if I didn't know what a partition is.
I admit that I used a generic term for the daemon that the dropbox .deb wanted to install. Now to ask for clarification of the claim that the daemon is a partition. If the dropbox.deb wants to install a 'partition' within /home/keith, I'd like to know that could be achieved? even if /home/keith was on the same partition as the OS
If I was running windows, I understand that the installation might create a new drive letter; may w:. Hopefully not d:, coz that would be data wouldn't it?
