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Since version 2024.04.17-1 dropbox-cli is built from the nautilus-dropbox source as currently the dropbox.py source file is not aligned with the latest release in https://linux.dropbox.com/packages/

I just learned that python-gobject is a dependency. If it isn't installed, you get this:

Starting Dropbox...Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox-cli", line 1450, in start
    download()
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox-cli", line 295, in download
    gi.require_version('Gdk', '3.0')
AttributeError: module 'gi' has no attribute 'require_version'

After installing python-gobject, dropbox-cli works just fine.

@frealgagu I'm using aurutils. The command I run almost every day is:

aur sync -u --no-confirm --no-view

@miguelmsoler What AUR helper are you using? The checksum you suggest is the previous version of the file, but it was recently changed.

https://linux.dropbox.com/packages/

the file dropbox.py was modified in July 10th. I think your helper didn't redownload the file and you have an outdated version of it.

Hi, I just tried to update and got this error:

==> Validating source files with sha256sums... dropbox-cli-2020.03.04.py ... FAILED ==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!

I fixed it after changing sha256sum to e34817eb1949308054ec79454ff77062037526e69ba56957aac37aeadc796e89 in PKGBUILD.

Is it worth the effort to patch this CLI tool somewhat like @thiagowfx suggested so that dropbox-cli version can work with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dropbox/?

--- dropbox-cli 2020-04-04 01:45:24.000360738 +1100
+++ dropbox-cli 2020-04-04 02:01:48.903992145 +1100
@@ -71,7 +71,11 @@

 PARENT_DIR = os.path.expanduser("~")
 DROPBOX_DIST_PATH = "%s/.dropbox-dist" % PARENT_DIR
+DROPBOX_ARCH_PATH = "/opt/dropbox"
 DROPBOXD_PATH = os.path.join(DROPBOX_DIST_PATH, "dropboxd")
+if not os.path.exists(DROPBOXD_PATH) and os.path.exists(os.path.join(DROPBOX_ARCH_PATH, "dropboxd")):
+    DROPBOX_DIST_PATH = DROPBOX_ARCH_PATH
+    DROPBOXD_PATH = os.path.join(DROPBOX_DIST_PATH, "dropboxd")
 DESKTOP_FILE = "/usr/share/applications/dropbox.desktop"

 enc = locale.getpreferredencoding()

2019-12-11 [again 2019-12-26]:

yay -Syu
...
    dropbox-cli-2019.02.14.py ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
Error downloading sources: dropbox-cli

Solution:

cd /mnt/Vancouver/apps/    ## or wherever you want to clone the repo
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/dropbox-cli.git
cd dropbox-cli/
makepkg -si

[2019-12-26]

Same issue [2019-12-26] -- solution:

cd /mnt/Vancouver/apps/dropbox-cli/
git pull
makepkg -si

@ahnafalrafi no, if you download the file https://linux.dropbox.com/packages/dropbox.py you will notice that the script is for version 2019.02.14 so the version of file is not for upload date else for version that appears into the file.

The dropbox.py file seems to have been updated here: https://linux.dropbox.com/packages/

The last update date there is 18-Jun-2019

==> Making package: dropbox-cli 2019.01.31-1 (Sun 10 Mar 2019 11:45:48 PM CET)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading dropbox-cli-2019.01.31.py...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  116k  100  116k    0     0   781k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  781k
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    dropbox-cli-2019.01.31.py ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
Error downloading sources: dropbox-cli

@frealgagu Thanks for maintaining this package. As I found the package flagged out-of-date, I updated PKGBUILD and published it on my GitHub repository along with build configuration tweaks. https://github.com/ymkjp/aur-dropbox-cli/commit/6902509a6516aa4304bf006cd54e84bdf5f03717 Hope you see this patch is helpful.