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Hi,
I’ve migrated from Ubuntu to Almalinux (redirected from CERN). I have difficulties in properly installing Dropbox.
I cannot find Dropbox in standard repositories for Almalinux. Where can I find it?

I downloaded the version for Fedora, but libgnome is missing and can’t find it for Almalinux.
I managed to install Dropbox from other sources but.
First I cannot make it start at loging (despite running dropbox autostart).
Second the icon cannot be clicked to select preferences and check the status. I can do so only in Xfce (but then the latter crashes… suppose is the Nvidia graphic card).

Any suggestion?
Cheers
Gianni

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I’ve just run up Ubuntu on a VM. apt search dropbox doesn’t come back with anything other than the various APIs such as python3-dropbox - “Official Dropbox API Client”. So the question is, what was it you had on Ubuntu, and where did it come from?

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Hi,
You can download the .deb file from the dropbox website. They provide explicitly one for Ubuntu

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You have two choices: the Fedora .deb or else compile from source. If downloading the .deb, ensure that you select the “Fedora 21-36 (.rpm)” 64-bit version. The V37 uses kernel 6.0. Alma 8.7 uses 4.18 and Alma 9.1 uses 5.14. Even then there are no guarantees. If the 21-36 .deb doesn’t work, you may have to compile from sources.

Any lurkers here done this?

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Thanks Martin. Noted

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When you say “Dropbox”, do you mean “server that hosts files” or “client that can access Dropbox server”?

For the latter, EPEL has at least rclone.

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Hi,
I am using Almalinux 9. I followed these solutions. No one doesn work. When I try install it from *.rpm file, I get this error:

‍‍‍‍warning: nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04-1.fedora.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 5044912e: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
	libgnome >= %{gnome_version} is needed by nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04-1.fc21.x86_64

How can I solve it?

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Hi,
The best so far has been

  1. Install kde-plasma (it’s’ the best for support of the icon of dropbox which gives access to some tools)

  2. install nautilus-devel and python-docutils

  3. run rpm -i nautilus-dropbox… (I’ve installed the one you are referring to)

  4. run dropbox start -i

Good luck

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