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spmish
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago
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installing Dropbox on ubuntu breaks nautilus ("Files")

Hi,   I installed ubuntu 22.04 yesterday and was hoping to install Dropbox to sync my files to the new machine. I installed Dropbox by downloading the .deb file from https://www.dropbox.com/insta...
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    spmish
    3 years ago

    thanks for the input everyone, I ended up just reinstalling the OS to resolve the issue.

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Walter
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3 years ago

Thanks for keeping us in the loop spmish - we're glad to hear it's sorted now.

 

See you around the Community and take care!

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micheleiurillo
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Simply there is not a possibility to run dropbox.. 

It's a huge problem for me..

It's run in others machine with linux and windows.. I need to have the files in every workstation

 

nautilus -q && nautilus
yuri@yuri-HP-Laptop-15s-eq1xxx:~$ ** Message: 11:55:57.130: Connecting to org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner.Files
Initializing nautilus-dropbox 2022.12.05

 

dropbox start
Starting Dropbox...Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1587, in <module>
ret = main(sys.argv)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1576, in main
result = commands[argv[i]](argv[i+1:])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1427, in start
if not start_dropbox():
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 763, in start_dropbox
subprocess.Popen([DROPBOXD_PATH], preexec_fn=os.setsid, cwd=os.path.expanduser("~"),
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 1024, in __init__
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 1901, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error: '/home/yuri/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd'

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