[EdLUG] Help with Dropbox, pleaseq
Edinburgh Linux Users Group
edlug at lists.edlug.org.uk
Sun Sep 10 21:36:40 UTC 2017
Did you try to install from the source
https://www.dropbox.com/en_GB/install-linux ?
On 30/08/17 21:30, Edinburgh Linux Users Group wrote:
> I tried the upgrade and everything seemed to work until...
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> /home/andrew/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-33.4.23/dropbox: Syntax
> error: "(" unexpected
> 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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