problems installing dropbox

[southpaul]

Hi,
I am having problems installing dropbox to my new kubuntu install on a 2007 iMac. The terminal's response to "sudo apt install dropbox" was "package dropbox is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source". When I looked in Discover it gave me the option of one called Nautilus dropbox,or caja dropbox for those with the Mate desktop. I found a website which recommended installing the nautilus one, by not too surprisingly it was not successful.The Dropbox site had something for ubuntu so I tried that but during install nautilus was mentioned, and nothing was showing up, no dropbox folder, or listing of an app in the application menu. Can anyone shine a light on this? Does anyone have a successful installation of Dropbox? Is there an alternative that works? Google drive? Thanks for any tips on this issue.

[Snowhog]

First, what version of Kubuntu did you install? Second, how was it installed on your iMac; as a Virtual Machine, or?

[chimak111]

I install dropbox following the instructions given in https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux under the section "Dropbox Headless Install via command line" and it works just fine for Kubuntu 16.04 desktop:

cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -

and

~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

I have

/home/chimak/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

in my autostart.

[oshunluvr]

Install from the above link, then add this and you're all set: https://store.kde.org/content/show.p...content=124416

[chimak111]

Install from the above link, then add this and you're all set: https://store.kde.org/content/show.p...content=124416

I took the route described in https://askubuntu.com/a/949139

[southpaul]

Hi some progress, took the headless install route suggested by Chimak111, after entering: ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd it proceeded but stopped with the line:
(dropbox:3243): Gtk-WATNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita"

There is now a Dropbox folder, and filling with files from Dropbox's server, and I can upload as well. Is the theme engine part of the process important?

[chimak111]

GTK is well known for messages in the terminal. See https://askubuntu.com/a/422400. If everything is running as expected, you can safely ignore that message because subsequently you'll have no need to run the command from the terminal, if as I do, you add the command to your autostart programs.

BTW, adwaita is GNOME's built-in theme which you may not have if you haven't stuffed up on GTK applications on your Kubuntu and that's not a big deal

[mr_raider]

Isn't Dropbox written in qt? KDE is the only environment where my Dropbox icon shows properly. In xfce it's always borked.

[chimak111]

Isn't Dropbox written in qt? KDE is the only environment where my Dropbox icon shows properly. In xfce it's always borked.

It is. I don't know about now, but there was chaos over the Dropbox icon for quite a while when they made the shift and it wasn't limited to xfce. I don't know whether KDE distros also had problems at the time.

Dropbox then had to scramble and "fix" things.