The installer gives this suggestion:

Note: python-gpg (python-gpgme for Ubuntu 16.10 and lower) is not installed, we will not be able to verify binary signatures.

However, installing python-gpg does not fix this. The correct dependency seems to be python3-gpg, now that the script uses python3.

I'd like to see an option, a compile-time switch, that disable all features (the entire right-click menu) except emblems

Don't know if this is the right place for this, please point me in the right direction if it isn't.

When I install the deb package from https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux it creates a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list with deb [arch=i386,amd64] http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily main as content.

This also happened two year ago when I installed it on Trusty. I think this is a packaging bug or the version on https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux should be updated, it points to https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/ubuntu/dropbox_2015.10.28_amd64.deb.

The installation instructions are the generic ./configure; make; make install; but not configure script is present.

Just upgraded to Fedora 27 from Fedora 26 and there is no
https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/27/
Please add it when possible.

For anyone else having issues installing Dropbox on Fedora 27, you could try:
$sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/dropbox.repo
and replacing
baseurl=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/$releasever/
to
baseurl=http://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/26/
I believe, this should work as a temporary workaround...

Fedora 29 is out! We need a repo!
I'll get working on it, here's a task to track.

In both Metacity and Compiz (Ubuntu 16.04), the appindicator does not show the menu.
Running either dbus-launch dropbox start or DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS= dropbox start will solve the issue, apparently (not tested by me).
Can this not be tested/handled in the py script?

I cannot add the screengrab, but the issue is mentioned here.

See downstream bug on Launchpad for details.

Hello

Now that wayland exists and that the installer will get wayland support when switching to GTK3 it's probably interesting to not rely on the DISPLAY environment variable (which is X11 specific)

An other way should be found for this

When nautilus-dropbox is installed when using the "new folder with selection" context menu and the selection is of many files, nautilus-dropbox makes the whole system unstable, blocking it for a while. This does not happen with nautilus without dropbox.
They have some solution for this.
Thank you and greetings.

$ grep 'nautilus-dropbox' /usr/bin/dropbox | head -n 1
# This file is part of nautilus-dropbox 2015.10.28.

vadv     21714  1.1  0.1 216888 15624 pts/0    S+   10:54   0:00  |   |   \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/dropbox start
vadv     21715 15.1  0.0      0     0 ?        Zs   10:54   0:00  |   |       \_ [dropbox] <defunct>

core dump: https://oc.postgrespro.ru/index.php/s/1K365lR0Bt0mx0v

Hi,

this feature is missing in the recent linux version of the dropbox client, right? Howto switch between 2 accounts in linux like in the windows client?

THX

Issue #51 fixed a problem with an obsolete package reference for Debian (and Ubuntu) but not for Fedora. In Fedora the package is now called python2-gpg I believe and the module to import is gnupg. Please could the fix be extended for those on Fedora? Thanks.

Using dropbox v2015.10.28, the last -but sadly very old- stable version.

1. Open Nautilus (tried with nautilus 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu5, GNOME nautilus 3.14.3, Ubuntu 16.04).
2. Pick any file, right-clic, Move to... or Copy to..., it doesn't matter.
3. Select the destination folder: Go to any Dropbox folder/subfolder. Works correctly on any other destination folder, so this might be a bug on this nautilus-dropbox plugin.
4. Clic on "Create Folder" button. Type any name. Clic on Create.

• What happen: The folder is created and path automatically change inside it, but incorrectly show the created folder also like another subfolder.
• What was expected: Same thing but without displaying oddly like a subfolder the current folder.

Take a look at below screenshots:

Using Nautilus I cannot drag files to dropbox. As soon as the cursor enters the area of the dropbox folder on the screen the image of the dragged file disappears and an empty "hand" icon remains. When I release the left button nothing happens. The "hand" icon persists and from then on I can not do anything within the Nautilus desktop, even if I shut the dropbox window. I have to restart the computer to get Nautilus to work again. This is a new bug in Ubuntu 17.10, in previous versions it worked correctly. I will report the bug to Ubuntu too.

In my ~/Dropbox folder, I have a link to a folder (i.e. ~/Dropbox/_link_to_my_folder points to ~/My_Folder) I want to have synced. When I navigate in Nautilus to ~/My_Folder, no emblems are shown nor can I use the context menu (it just says "Move to Dropbox", which is nonsense, as it already is "in Dropbox", whatever that is supposed to mean). Insync (a Google drive client) can do this properly, surely Dropbox can do better than them.

There is no dropbox in tray when I suspend my notebook via closing lid. But dropbox works itself.

Is dropbox tray icon QT5 default or self-written?
Linux 3.16 Ubuntu 14.04

Dropbox uses it's own qt style, which looks ugly. Can you follow system style or add an option to use it?

If there is a better place to file this issue, please let me know.

If I right click and click Refference Center- i get three errors in thunar:
Can't open «/tmp/dbxlzimoON.html#e33195909563b4a0efe3902199b5f570b49cbff95f2cb45a03db67851c7ef85c6586d6b467e2b6bef2b37c».
Can't open
/tmp/dbxlCHF1ym.html#a8eca305bbf4db9b043a32b0f6386f9e88fdd50783922ed24dde6137d421fc647bfa7915c815c10acece02
Can't open /tmp/dbxlzimoON.html#e33195909563b4a0efe3902199b5f570b49cbff95f2cb45a03db67851c7ef85c6586d6b467e2b6bef2b37c».
Input output error

Hi,

Seems that new content added to my DropBox area don't appear anymore in Nautilus view. I have tried refreshing with F5 key but no luck. I know another user who observed the same recently.

I'm using nautilus-dropbox-2015.10.28-1.fc10.x86_64 package on my Fedora 24 host.

I tried building nautilus-dropbox 1.6.1, 1.6.2, and 2.10.0

First, I resolved missing dependencies.

All of them blow up when they attempt to download the proprietary daemon with results similar to:

drew@drew:~/src/nautilus-dropbox-1.6.1$ sudo dropbox start -i
Starting Dropbox...The program 'dropbox' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
(Details: serial 1145 error_code 143 request_code 139 minor_code 7)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
The program 'dropbox' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
(Details: serial 1143 error_code 143 request_code 139 minor_code 23)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Hoping it's not hopeless.

Do we just have to wait for Ubuntu 18.04 which is due out next month?

Do Ubuntu Mate releases tend to follow quickly after the Ubuntu release?

By default, the Dropbox folder in my home folder will show the green checkmark indicating that my dropbox is synced. However, if I change the meta-data on the folder Dropbox folder to use a custom folder design, i.e. with Numix, via:
gvfs-set-attribute /home/britt/Dropbox metadata::custom-icon-name folder-dropbox

a weird issue happens. While the folder does take the beautiful new icon, the checkmark is not gone for the Dropbox folder, though it remains for all child folders inside.

When going here: https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux
ALL packages for ALL linux versions return 404 errors.

Also, I get this running apt-get update on Ubuntu too:

Ign:20 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily/main all Packages
Ign:22 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily/main Translation-en_GB
Ign:24 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily/main Translation-en
Err:25 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily/main i386 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: ::1 3142]
Ign:26 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily/main amd64 Packages
Fetched 306 kB in 7s (42.0 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: The repository 'http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: Failed to fetch http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu/dists/wily/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: ::1 3142]
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

There is no dropbox in tray and no syncing when I suspend via closing lid. But dropbox still in process list. If I suspend via command, not the lid - dropbox will suspend correctly. System - Linux Mint 17.1 kernel 3.16

Not really nice thingy, It is obsolete and not recomended, could you please use configure.ac please?

Hi,
After I updated my system, it seems dropbox does not work property, it shows:

Starting Dropbox...Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1583, in <module>
    ret = main(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1572, in main
    result = commands[argv[i]](argv[i+1:])
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1429, in start
    if not start_dropbox():
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 757, in start_dropbox
    stderr=sys.stderr, stdout=f, close_fds=True, env=new_env)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 394, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1047, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format erro

Nowadays all files are inside two directories: .dropbox and .dropbox-dist. Can you follow XDG spec so the files stays in the right directories:

$XDG_DATA_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific data files should be stored.
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific configuration files should be stored.
$XDG_CACHE_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific non-essential data files should be stored.

More info:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

It would be awesome to have fullpath for the pop-up notification, and/or for the list of recently modified files on the Nautilus icon.

Thanks in advance.

If I press the dropbox icon in the system tray the dropbox folder appears but the icons on my ubuntu desktop disappear and do not reappear even if I shut dropbox. I had the issue with previous versions of Ubuntu, and I have previously reported the issue to ubuntu but no solution so-far.

Hi,
the description you provide in INSTALL does not work. The script "configure" does not exist.
You also give a hint to autoconf but do not provide any advice howto use it.
I tried simply running autoconf in the cloned repository and got the following error message:

autoconf
configure.in:5: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.in:9: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
configure.in:20: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
configure.in:76: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL

Could you please a working howto?

THX

If composing is enabled - then dropbox will be hidden from xfce4 tray. disabling composing and restarting dropbox makes icon. I've heard that there are problems in Gnome and KDE too.
https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/communities/public/questions/201269689-tray-icon-linux?locale=en-us
https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/communities/public/questions/201919785-Missing-title-and-icon-in-the-notification-try-on-Linux-KDE?locale=en-us
Also dropbox qt5 app doesn't support gtk theme.

Q: Is it possible to install both the main Dropbox app and also nautilus-dropbox? Apparently not!

Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Codename: bionic
Linux Who 4.15.0-23-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 31 16:36:28 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
buster/sid

 $ nautilus --version                                                                                        ———
Initializing nautilus-dropbox 2015.10.28
GNOME nautilus 3.26.3
 
$ gnome-shell --version                                                                                     ———
GNOME Shell 3.28.1

I have nautilus-dropbox installed and running. I tried to install the main Dropbox app, got some trouble, assumed it must be I have an old version of something, and tried installing new stuff.

Trying to build. Figured out to run autogen.sh. ./configure then said:

checking for NAUTILUS... no
configure: error: Package requirements (libnautilus-extension >= 2.16.0) were not met:

No package 'libnautilus-extension' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables NAUTILUS_CFLAGS
and NAUTILUS_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.

I do have earlier versions:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Apr 20 18:39 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnautilus-extension.so.1 -> libnautilus-extension.so.1.4.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38824 Apr 20 18:39 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnautilus-extension.so.1.4.0

So I set:
NAUTILUS_LIBS=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nautilus/extensions-3.0/
And tried again. ./configure made the same complaint, no doubt because my version number of the library is too low.

===============================
I wanted to install the main Dropbox application as described in this article.

So I downloaded the .deb file and got this:

 $ sudo gdebi dropbox_2015.10.28_amd64.deb                                                                   ———
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
This package is uninstallable
Breaks existing package 'nautilus-dropbox' conflict: dropbox ( )

================
Getting desperate, I even tried installing the library:

 $ sudo  apt-get install libnautilus-extension-dev                                           ———

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libnautilus-extension-dev : Depends: libgtk-3-dev (>= 3.22.6) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

So I'm giving up for now. Any and all suggesions are welcome. Especially those that work...

After installing Dropbox on Ubuntu It's open a dropbox link in web browser to let the user "Sign in or create an account" then connect the computer with Dropbox. But the problem is this particular page has no "Sign in with Google" option. This page is missing the feature.

But the dropbox.com homepage has particular option like its android app. It's very important because lots of user sign up & sign in dropbox with Google.

Hi,

pygtk binding is dead, nautilus-dropbox should be switched to GIR bindings and GTK+ 3

The use of old pygtk binding is actually a blocker for #55

Edit: Already using GTK3 actually

There seems to be a bunch of issues with dropbox on a Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS clean install.

From Ubuntu repo

Installing from the Ubuntu repo results in the usual install process going fine. On start of Dropbox it complains about python-gpgme being missing (as it's no longer in the Ubuntu repository), but otherwise downloads the linux distro and extracts as expected.

However it does not load the webbrowser to link to an account.

Running dropbox status from Terminal shows it is running and 'Waiting to be linked to a Dropbox account...'. No link is given, and there's no app icon or anything running (not sure if this is a gnome issue?)

From github

Builds and installs fine. No longer complains about python-gpgme as it was fixed in #51 :) Still does not fire up a browser for linking the account.

Running dropbox status from Terminal shows it is running and 'Waiting to be linked to a Dropbox account...' But, the link URL is given! Yay! Opening the link then allows linking the computer to the account.

HOWEVER: Dropbox on the machine does not update from this state. It is still 'Waiting to be linked to a Dropbox account...'

Again, no app icon in system tray or anything like that.

Am happy to supply logs etc as needed - just let me know what you need.

When system is started the tray icon appear and sync is ok.
After a while the icon disapear, the sync continues to work but without the visual feedback from the tray icon.

nautilus-dropbox uses python-gpgme to verify signatures, but that Python module is now obsolete. It was removed from Debian in October 2017 and therefore is now gone from Ubuntu as well.

The impact of this bug is that nautilus-dropbox can't verify signatures on recent versions of Debian and Ubuntu, and perhaps other platforms as well.

Solution info

Per the linked bug, Debian (and Ubuntu) now include a python-gpg package that effectively replaces python-gpgme. This new package is actually from gpgme upstream, unlike python-gpgme.

Please see this similar issue for an example and more info.

[moz@pent ~]$ rpm -q dropbox
dropbox-2.10.0-3.fc24.noarch

[moz@pent ~]$ ls -dl Dropbox/
drwx------. 11 moz moz 4096 Aug 18 11:07 Dropbox/

I get dropbox often popping up and claiming it needs to "fix permissions" on the Dropbox/ directory, and asking for a password. It doesn't explain what that means, and as far as I can see, there are no permissions problems here.

Nemo is a popular fork of Nautilus. If a default file manager set to Nemo, nautilus-dropbox still uses Nautilus (e.g. for Open Dropbox Folder).

I want to have several folders synced. Now the application makes me to

1. put them to Dropbox folder - which I do not want, they have a place in my filesystem hierachy that makes sense to me and I have no idea why I should change that because of some cloud service
2. link them from the Dropbxo folder, which leads to #9 - if that were fixed and #10 were fixed, I could just make a hidden ~/.dropbox/dropbox_wont_sync_several_folders_without_a_master_folder (or appropriate location if #5 were fixed) and link those folders I want to sync, but it would be nice if I did not have to "hack" the dropbox application in this way and it would just expose this in its setting. I cannot be that hard, or am I mistaken?

Fedora will switch to python3 with fedora 30.

Fedora 30 System-Wide Change proposal: Mass Python 2 Package Removal
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/QRXWWZ2QG7JSZMAXNI6M6QMWV2XPCINM/

At this time we can't build nautilus-dropbox and the subpackages for caja- and nemo-file-browser at rpmfusion build-servers for fedora any more.
Of course your own builds for fedora won't work with fedora 30.
Currently fedora 29 is branched from fedora rawhide branch. That means building nautilus-dropbox at master branch for rpmfusion stopped working now.

Upstream report:
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5014

Please port to python3.

Best regards

Under distributions based on Python 3 instead of 2, this problem may happen:

checking for python... /usr/bin/python2
checking for rst2man... python rst2man.py
checking for pygtk... no
configure: error: couldn't find pygtk

Even if you've already ran this command, the error is still here:

pip2 install pygtk

The problem is configure script used these code to detect if pygtk is available:

cat <<EOF | python
try:
 import gtk
except:
 exit(1)
else:
 exit(0)
EOF

(Line 10802)

If the system is based on python 2, it will stuck.

Besides, some other scripts will not work if you don't re-edit their hash-bang from /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python2.

The easiest way is to run this vim command on each file:

:1,$s/python/python2/g

However, upgrading to Python 3 is a good idea, to make it faster and better.

Thanks.

Hi guys! I have a question about dropbox from the oficial website for linux.

I installed dropbox in Debian Jessie but not run interface, only daemon.

This nautilus-dropbox is the same that the dropbox in oficial website for linux?

Section: Dropbox Headless Install via command line in:

https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux

I do not want to have a folder named Dropbox on my system. I cannot rename it. I am sure you tihnk that it is great marketing or something, but it is not, I like Dropbox because it works well, not because it forces me to have a folder named "Dropbox" on my system.

On systems where you cannot create socket files in the home directories, nautilus-dropbox currently does not work correctly. This is e.g. a common issue with some network file systems. Specifically, it fails to create the command_socket file here: https://github.com/dropbox/nautilus-dropbox/blob/master/dropbox.in#L667

As mentioned in #5, it would be good if one of the XDG locations (probably $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR) could be used for that.

The emblems on Ubuntu 18.04 Nautilus are too big and don't let me see the photo thumbnails. This happens for both the Nautilus list view and thumbnail view. Here is an example:

I end up having to turn off Dropbox to make the folder usable for viewing.

Helle, since I have changed ubuntu from 17.04 version to 17.10 version with gnome 3, I can't open my drop box. Can you help me?

I don't want Dropbox to start automatically during boot.

• I installed nautilus-dropbox in a fresh version of Ubuntu 18.04
  • Minimal install of the OS, and
  • Installed the daemon from official Ubuntu repositories.
• The app does not respect the Start Dropbox on system startup option.
• I've noticed the dropbox file in ~/.config/autostart is always created¹ whenever the Dropbox app is started (from GUI or CLI).

¹ What this means is that I can manually delete the file or issue $ dropbox autostart n after starting the app, and on next restart of the app the file reappears.

My current workaround is to issue $ dropbox autostart n after starting dropbox since I rarely use dropbox on that machine.