[EdLUG] Help with Dropbox, pleaseq

Edinburgh Linux Users Group edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk
Wed Aug 30 20:31:41 UTC 2017


I tried the upgrade and everything seemed to work until...

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andrew at andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ 
/home/andrew/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-33.4.23/dropbox: 41: 
/home/andrew/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-33.4.23/dropbox:^AV: not 
found



On 30/08/17 21:13, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:
> Andrew (presumably) wrote:
>> I want to install dropbox, but this is the result:
>>
>>   andrew at andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~/Download/Software$ sudo apt-get install ./dropbox_2015.10.28_amd64.deb
> Well, for a start this is the wrong tool for the job.
> /usr/bin/apt-get is the older front-end for the APT package management
> system; these days assuming you're running a modern release you'd
> usually be better off using the newer and friendlier one, just called
> /usr/bin/apt.  But APT is for resolving dependency chains and fetching
> packages from your configured repositories - what you seem to be
> trying to do here is bypass that whole mechanism and manually install
> just one particular local package-file.  If you really want to do that
> (I don't recommend it), it would be a job for the lower-level tool
> /usr/bin/dpkg!  Or at least, it would if you had the right
> dependencies either available as local files or already installed.
> It's not clear whether you have:
>
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Note, selecting 'dropbox:amd64' instead of './dropbox_2015.10.28_amd64.deb'
>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>> or been moved out of Incoming.
> (I hope you aren't using unstable, but it would be really reduce the
> amount of guesswork required if you could tell us what OS release you
> *are* using.)
>
>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies.
>>   dropbox:amd64 : Depends: python-gtk2:amd64 (>= 2.12) but it is not installable
>>                   Depends: python:amd64 (>= 2.5) but it is not installable
>>                   Depends: libatk1.0-0:amd64 (>= 1.20.0) but it is not installable
>>                   Depends: libc6:amd64 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
>>                   Depends: libcairo2:amd64 (>= 1.6.0) but it is not installable
>>                   Depends: libglib2.0-0:amd64 (>= 2.16.0) but it is not installable
>>                   Depends: libgtk2.0-0:amd64 (>= 2.12.0) but it is not installable
>>                   Depends: libpango1.0-0:amd64 (>= 1.20.1) but it is not installable
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>> andrew at andrew-Lenovo-G50-30:~/Download/Software$
> It's not clear why your system would have trouble with these
> dependencies - libc6, for instance, is guaranteed to be on your system
> already, and version 2.4 came out ten years ago.  Maybe your APT
> system is just badly confused and in need of a "sudo apt update" (and
> possibly a "sudo apt upgrade")?
>   
>> Anyone know how I can fix this ?
> This might help:
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/411809/nautilus-dropbox-depends-dropbox-but-it-is-not-going-to-be-installed/411815




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