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Maiwoldo's avatar
Maiwoldo
New member | Level 2
2 months ago

Ubuntu 24.04 installation limbo

I tried installing Dropbox from deb (dpkg -i dropbox_2024.04.17_amd64.deb) to a relatively fresh Ubuntu 24.04 system.

- The package installation succeeded, but dropbox start failed silently. 
- Then I tried via CLI "dropbox start", which pointed me to "dropbox start -i", which then failed in python, as the gi package was missing

- To install gi via pip (as PyGObject), I had to first install libcairo2-dev and libgirepository-1.0-dev via apt

- then it worked

 

That can't be the normal procedure. Am I missing something fundamental?

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    Hey Maiwoldo - welcome to our Community!

     

    Did you ensure that you device meets the minimum requirements as outlined here?

     

    Let us know more and we'll take it from there. 

     

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