Package Details: dropbox 211.4.6008-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/dropbox.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: dropbox
Description: A free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily.
Upstream URL: https://www.dropbox.com
Licenses: custom
Submitter: mtorromeo
Maintainer: mtorromeo
Last Packager: mtorromeo
Votes: 2374
Popularity: 1.54
First Submitted: 2009-01-22 14:21 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-10-30 08:51 (UTC)

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yan12125 commented on 2019-01-05 16:39 (UTC) (edited on 2019-02-27 08:11 (UTC) by yan12125)

Run the following command in case you got errors during "Verifying source file signatures with gpg..."

gpg --recv-keys 1C61A2656FB57B7E4DE0F4C1FC918B335044912E

Alternatively, you can download Dropbox's public key from https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc and import it with:

gpg --import rpm-public-key.asc

You can check whether keys are successfully imported or not using the output of gpg -k. You should find something like this:

pub   rsa2048 2010-02-11 [SC]
      1C61A2656FB57B7E4DE0F4C1FC918B335044912E
uid           [ unknown] Dropbox Automatic Signing Key <linux@dropbox.com>

yan12125 commented on 2018-08-01 11:41 (UTC) (edited on 2020-01-24 15:13 (UTC) by yan12125)

If you can't run the dropbox@ service normally, try to create a read-only directory ~/.dropbox-dist and run again.

yan12125 commented on 2017-11-06 15:13 (UTC) (edited on 2019-03-18 03:50 (UTC) by yan12125)

Some useful places for issues about Dropbox itself (not the package):

  1. https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Desktop-client-builds/bd-p/101003016 Official Dropbox user feedback forum

  2. Arch Linux discussion places: https://bbs.archlinux.org/, #archlinux on freenode.net, https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general

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<deleted-account> commented on 2018-11-29 03:01 (UTC)

would it be possible for you to add the unsupported filesystem patch to this

yan12125 commented on 2018-11-13 12:07 (UTC)

@ncage: most likely you need to install optional dependencies of this package - perl-file-mimeinfo and/or xdg-utils. Running dropbox from a terminal should help you diagnose the problem, too.

ncage commented on 2018-11-13 02:00 (UTC)

Everything is working except when i click "Open Dropbox Folder" menu item. I'm running gnome. Anyone have a clue?

yan12125 commented on 2018-11-10 02:20 (UTC)

@alex.forencich: Did you test it? Looks like it has been broken some time per https://github.com/dimaryaz/dropbox_ext4/issues/2

alex.forencich commented on 2018-11-08 07:33 (UTC)

This should be incorporated in to this package to keep dropbox working on non-ext4 filesystems: https://github.com/dimaryaz/dropbox_ext4 .

t.langlois commented on 2018-10-24 09:34 (UTC)

I'm receiving an advice from Dropbox in order to put the Dropbox folder on an ext4 partition but it is already the case. Is it a glitch in their type of partition detection scheme or are they sending this to all users ? If this is not the right place for this kind of question, tell me.

yan12125 commented on 2018-10-18 11:45 (UTC)

Thanks @fra-san for various test results. I'll keep this package as-is - no dropping dropbox@.service, no changes to dropbox.service.

fra-san commented on 2018-10-16 13:19 (UTC) (edited on 2018-10-16 13:19 (UTC) by fra-san)

I'm really interested in keeping dropbox running smoothly, so I kept playing with the patches proposed by soderstrom and yan12125.
I found an issue with systemd units that use Type=forking: if you opt out from Dropbox's "Early releases" program (i.e. from using beta and experimental version) and you install the latest stable version, then at startup dropbox can't find a new version and doesn't fork, making the systemd service hit a timeout and fail. The service, then, restarts itself, times out again, and... you know.
It looks like Type=simple with disabled automatic updates is the only configuration that works in the most common scenarios.

fra-san commented on 2018-10-09 18:00 (UTC) (edited on 2018-10-10 09:18 (UTC) by fra-san)

@soderstrom
Just one point: it might be useful to point out that your proposal requires ~/.dropbox-dist to be writable, otherwise the start job fails and dropbox is caught in a restart loop. I don't completely like the idea of having unavoidable automatic updates, but if it's ok for other users I'll live with it.

EDIT: Sorry, I should have been more precise. I can only confirm the aforementioned error if ~/.dropbox-dist is created with permissions = 000 as suggested in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dropbox. Not sure about a read-only ~/.dropbox-dist with something inside it.

johannes87 commented on 2018-10-06 17:08 (UTC)

The current version is 58.4.92. Updating worked on my x86_64 computer by updating pkgver and sha256sums_x86_64 in PKGBUILD

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