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Dropbox in Ubuntu "Dropbox isn't running! Dropbox is already running!"
Dear Dropbox community I have been struggling with my Dropbox on Ubuntu for a while now. The icon on the system tray had disappeared, but files were still syncing. I tried a couple of things to m...
Hi,
I have the exact same issue (on Ubuntu 18.04), using the offline installer as suggested did not work unfortunately. It gave back the same error as in the original post.
Walter
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey there ldamico - sorry to hear about this.
Can you try a complete, clean advanced re-install for me and let me know how this goes?
Just a few things to note here:
1. Make sure you're running our software on a supported configuration as per this article which also provides more information on the system requirements for installing on Linux machines. In this page you'll find the libraries you need to have installed as well for Dropbox to run smoothly on your device.
2. Make also sure that the drive you're installing our software is of a supported format and preferably on your primary drive (meaning the one your OS is installed on): For Dropbox to work best you should make sure that the drive is formatted as NTFS (Windows), HFS (Mac OS X) or a file system that supports extended attributes (Linux) such as EXT3, EXT4 or even BtrFS .
Let me know what you find and we'll take it from there. Thank you!
Hi Walt3r, thanks for your help!
I ran the procedure:
One thing that happened is this:
leonardo@leonardo-ThinkPad-X270:~$ rm -rf /var/lib/dropbox
rm: cannot remove '/var/lib/dropbox': Permission deniedI solved it using sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dropbox
Another thing is:
leonardo@leonardo-ThinkPad-X270:~$ rm /etc/apt/source.d/dropbox
rm: cannot remove '/etc/apt/source.d/dropbox': No such file or directoryAfter that, I have installed from .deb, I clicked Dropbox icon, it downloads the software, updates and then tells me Dropbox Start Required: I click Start Dropbox a few times but it is not responsive.
I do find a dropbox process in system monitor which however is in Sleeping status.
After 10mins or so of idleness I closed the window, killed the process, and reopened Dropbox by clicking on the icon. The process restarted but I saw nothing, unfortunately and now in system monitor is in sleeping status.
Should I try to install dropbox-nautilus by sudo apt-get?
- Walter
Thanks for keeping me posted Leonardo ( ldamico)!
Sorry to hear this persists for you. Maybe try installing the latest build of Qt5? Also, did you check all of my suggestions in my previous communication? Can you make sure that you have all the required libraries for our software to run?
Bear in mind that Dropbox uses Qt 5.5, and as such needs the following software to work on desktop environments:
- GTK 2.12 or higher
- GLib 2.22 or higher
- Libnotify 0.4.4 or higher
- Libappindicator 1.0
- Nautilus 2.30.0 or higher
In addition, I have located your support ticket with our team and passed your comments here along to the expert handling your case. They will get back to you with an update on this via email.
Should you need anything else, just let me know!
Hi Walt3r! Thanks for your help, sorry for my incomplete answer: yes, I have checked 1 and 2 from your previous post and it was working.
I have installed the latest Qt build from their website (downloaded their latest installer following the link from here: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/gettingstarted.html)
Upon running: qmake --version
I get the following output:
QMake version 3.0
Using Qt version 5.6.2 in /home/leonardo/anaconda3/libSo I would be sure that Qt is installed. Perhaps having it in anaconda3/lib could be a problem for the Dropbox installer?
Thanks!
