| 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: | 1.45 |
| First Submitted: | 2009-01-22 14:21 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2026-04-09 07:12 (UTC) |
Ah nevermind, the problem was in my system.
I had aliased grep to grep --color=always. Apparently this trips up the GPG key parsing of makepkg.
It's fixing makepkg to either parse grep colours correctly or to explicitly call it with --color=never.
Is anybody else having issues with PGP keys?
I already followed the instructions in the 2019 pinned comment, but makepkg -si still fails. Re-downloading the package and adding -f to gendesk don't seem to work.
dropbox $ makepkg -si
==> Making package: dropbox 246.4.3513-1 (Thu 16 Apr 2026 14:01:32 BST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
[...]
==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg...
dropbox-lnx.x86_64-246.4.3513.tar.gz ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!
Once again the package maintainer has put in the effort to update the package version and checksums, but not to spend three keypresses to add the -f flag to gendesk.
How hard is it?
Please add -f argument to gendesk. Can't upgrade with aura -Ayu:
[dropbox] Generating desktop file... no
dropbox.desktop already exists. Use -f as the first argument to overwrite it
Please, it would be appreciated if you could add -f to the gendesk call in PKGBUILD. As has been pointed out previously, this would fix compatibility with automated AUR helpers.
Kind reminder that mtorromeo is a volunteer and we should appreciate the work he does. No need for hostile language.
All these updates and the package is still incompatible with automated AUR helpers because the goddamn dropbox.desktop already exists error is still present. Can you fucking fix this already, it takes all of one -f flag in prepare() and it has been an issue for several YEARS.
same for me, I had to clean ~/.cache/yay/dropbox to be able to recreate the package.
Deleting "~/.cache/paru/clone/dropbox" and installing again also worked for me.
Still manual intervention but simple enough.
Building fresh from the latest tarball (in my case, by removing the old instance of ~/.cache/paru/clone/dropbox and installing again, although the steps needed will depend on which AUR helper is being used, if any) seems to work fine for me now. Thanks @mtorromeo!
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..."
Alternatively, you can download Dropbox's public key from https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc and import it with:
You can check whether keys are successfully imported or not using the output of
gpg -k. You should find something like this: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):
https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Desktop-client-builds/bd-p/101003016 Official Dropbox user feedback forum
Arch Linux discussion places: https://bbs.archlinux.org/, #archlinux on freenode.net, https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general