Package Details: dropbox 220.4.4126-1

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: 2378
Popularity: 1.75
First Submitted: 2009-01-22 14:21 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-03-26 08:13 (UTC)

Pinned Comments

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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doraskayo commented on 2016-12-21 15:00 (UTC) (edited on 2016-12-21 15:02 (UTC) by doraskayo)

@mtorromeo, it appears there's a misunderstanding here. The source URLs actually give 404 responses to many users, including myself. When I visit the Dropbox website to download the "Headless Install" for x86_64 Linux, the URL listed is the following: https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64 When visiting that URL with network inspection (F12 in Chromium), I can see that it redirects to this URL: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-16.4.29.tar.gz I tried to see if this URL scheme can be used to download earlier versions of Dropbox as well, and it seems that it was able to fetch every single version of this package since its initial commit (3.4.6). Therefore, I can only conclude that Dropbox has probably changed the location in which they host their downloads, and that because of some weird funky caching, it appears that the old URL scheme still works, but only for some users. Regardless, the new URL scheme appears stable and reliable, even for older versions. It works well for me, and hopefully for everyone else as well.

wooque commented on 2016-12-21 14:12 (UTC)

I'm also getting 404 for links, changed URLs as crbnr suggested to successfully install Dropbox. I'm from East Europe if it matters.

GordonGR commented on 2016-12-21 12:51 (UTC)

*rolls his eyes and disables notifications, so he can avoid the contant trolling*

cbrnr commented on 2016-12-21 07:48 (UTC)

@GordonGR the download links do not work for many people, including me. I'd suggest you stop bullying everyone reporting legitimate problems here. @Alexpin I don't know how these links cannot be official just because they are on a Dropbox-owned domain listed to host user content. After all, the official download links point right there.

sajaysurya commented on 2016-12-21 03:57 (UTC)

The download link is throwing a 404 error. I'm accessing the server from India. Please update the download link.

Alexpin commented on 2016-12-20 13:29 (UTC) (edited on 2016-12-20 13:41 (UTC) by Alexpin)

@GordonGR: the download links do NOT work for me either. The fact that you don't have a problem does not imply that the problem doesn't exist. @cbrnr: those urls are NOT official. See https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/217 where you can see that urls in the form dl.dropboxusercontent.com/* are used to host USER data. EDIT: having said that, the file hosted at dl.dropboxusercontent.com and the one at www.dropbox.com/download (linked below by @Tenza) are indeed the same file.

GordonGR commented on 2016-12-20 13:22 (UTC)

The download links work perfectly well. Stop bullying the maintainer.

cbrnr commented on 2016-12-20 12:19 (UTC)

As some people have already indicated, the download links in the PKGBUILD do not work any more. I don't know why the URLs that the official download site points to cannot be used, but here are the two lines that need to be changed in the PKGBUILD that use the official download URLs: source_i686=("https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17/${pkgname}-lnx.x86-${pkgver}.tar.gz") source_x86_64=("https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17/${pkgname}-lnx.x86_64-${pkgver}.tar.gz")

Tenza commented on 2016-12-18 04:33 (UTC)

Can someone update the PKGBUILD to download the files from: https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86 https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64

mmmcalistair commented on 2016-12-17 14:08 (UTC)

Installation fails due to 404 while trying to load file https://d1ilhw0800yew8.cloudfront.net/client/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-16.4.29.tar.gz

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