In the end I have one advice: trust the terminal!Īnd one qustion: When pamac terminal works, why didn’t pamac gui? I guess it ran the command pamac install dropbox instead, but shouldn’t there be a graphical way to have it choose between ‘install’ and ‘build’ - or automatically determine what is needed?Īlso, I guess I could file a bug regarding list item 1 and pamac gui failing at its job. After the software manager window exits, look for dropbox then click the install button. In Linux Mint, click Start > Systems > Software Manager. deb) file version for Ubuntu for download. Installing Dropbox for Linux from Software Center The first way is to install Dropbox from the software manager. So, go to the Dropbox website and choose the 64-bit (. Removed everything (this was helpful: How to uninstall Dropbox on your computer | Dropbox Help ) and did a new search in these forums: Dropbox not working (New Linux User) - #2 by chomsky gave the recipe: pamac build dropbox worked like a charm! The first step is to get the Dropbox application’s installation file for our Ubuntu system. Terminating the script also terminated Dropbox. However, no syncing took place and I was unable to change storage settings via the Dropbox tray icon.ĭropbox headless install as per instructions at the Dropbox site: Install - Dropbox which was working but gave me no menu item and a constantly running script in terminal. This gave a working menu icon in my start menu which logged me in to Dropbox.

Being new to Manjaro I tried 3 ways to install Dropbox:

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