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John Row's avatar
John Row
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Trying to install on Linux Mint

I have a brand new installation of Mint  I'm trying to install Dropbox.  I have Dropbox running on 2 other machines.  I downloaded dropbox_2022_12_05_amd64.deb.  When I try to run the install I get a...
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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    2 years ago

    Hey John Row, sorry to hear you're having issues with this.

     

    Did you make sure your device meets the minimum requirements as outlined here?

     

    Also, are you installing it from this page or this one perhaps?

     

    Any additional information or screenshots are more than welcome! 

John Row's avatar
John Row
Helpful | Level 6

Walter,

 

Thankyou.  I downloaded the Linux 64bit.  Untared it, now what?  When I Googled "how to install dropbox", this page didn't come up.  Now how do I actually install it?  I'm sure the instructions are out there somewhere, I've just not been lucky enough to bump into the right page.

JR

John Row's avatar
John Row
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Thanks again.  I finally bumped into the correct web page and got Dropbox insstalled.

 

JR

  • TheOmnisis's avatar
    TheOmnisis
    Explorer | Level 3
    5 months ago

    Hi John - I'm having trouble getting Dropbox installed on my Mint installation - any help you can pass my way would be very much appreciated. 

     

    Thanks

    Brian

    • Walter's avatar
      Walter
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      5 months ago

      Hey TheOmnisis - did you make sure your device meets the minimum requirements for the install per this page? 

      • TheOmnisis's avatar
        TheOmnisis
        Explorer | Level 3
        5 months ago
        Yeah..... I've managed to now get the package installed. I'm now tripping up getting the files transferred from the Windows file system across ..says the Linux partition isnt ext4, which it clearly is.....

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