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boxquestioner
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

Proprietary daemon and python-gpgme

Hi, I try to install Dropbox on Linux. When I clicked on the Dropbox icon or visited www.dropbox.com/download, I got a message: In order to use Dropbox, you must download the proprietary daemon. No...
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Jay
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7 years ago
Hi there, what version of Linux are you using? Are you not able to apt-get that module?
  • jonaseberle's avatar
    jonaseberle
    Helpful | Level 6
    7 years ago

    Hi, it's on Ubuntu 18.04 using the official .deb-package dropbox:2015.10.28 .

    python-gpgme is obsolete, the successor is python-gpg (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-dropbox/+bug/1759984)

    This box is shown on every start. The daemon IS installed. One can click "cancel" here - dropbox runs just fine.

    It would be nice if it was not shown, though...

    • An_Laoch's avatar
      An_Laoch
      Explorer | Level 4
      7 years ago

      This morning I booted my laptop running 

      ~ $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	LinuxMint
Description:	Linux Mint 19 Tara
Release:	19
Codename:	tara

      I was presented with a dropbox message saying that the package python-pgpme was not installed and Dropbox couldn't work without it. Ubuntu dropped python-pgpme in favour of python-pgp some time back and python-pgpme is no longer available in the repositories.

    • Jay's avatar
      Jay
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      7 years ago
      Does the ‘Don’t show this again’ checkbox not work? If it doesn’t I’ll forward it to our dev team to investigate this further.
      • jonaseberle's avatar
        jonaseberle
        Helpful | Level 6
        7 years ago

        "we will not be able to verify binary signatures" - I am not going to mute a warning about that.

  • gcvisel's avatar
    gcvisel
    Helpful | Level 5
    7 years ago

    I am getting the same popup every time I boot up Mint 17.3.  If I click on OK (and check the Don't show this again box,) it hangs the install at about 75%.  (This is with Dropbox installed and running just fine!)  If I just click the checkbox and dismiss the popup, it just comes back on next bootup.  More of a nuisance on bootup that I have to dismiss, so I was wondering if anyone else was seeing this popup.  

    • jonaseberle's avatar
      jonaseberle
      Helpful | Level 6
      6 years ago

      Any update here?

      • smartsphere's avatar
        smartsphere
        New member | Level 2
        6 years ago

        I installed   python-gpg and  Dropbox loads up without the warning

        sudo apt-get install python-gpg

        Dennnis

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