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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>

If you can't run the dropbox@ service normally, try to create a read-only directory ~/.dropbox-dist and run again.

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

Hi and thanks for maintaining this package! I recently got a 4k screen and am having issues with the dropbox tray icon and gui being extremely small and being very hard to view. looked for various solutions online but didn't find any. Could you please point me in the right direction? Thanks alot!

I'm getting signature errors on file dropbox-lnx.x86_64-178.4.4811.tar.gz

I imported the keys as you suggest in the pinned commands, but it did not help.

Is there something wrong with that file?

Here is my output (sorry for the German)

Erstelle dropbox...
Running as unit: run-u856.service
Press ^] three times within 1s to disconnect TTY.
==> Erstelle Paket: dropbox 178.4.4811-1 (Fr 04 Aug 2023 13:05:38 CEST)
==> Prüfe Laufzeit-Abhängigkeiten...
==> Prüfe Buildtime-Abhängigkeiten...
==> Empfange Quellen...
  -> DropboxGlyph_Blue.svg gefunden
  -> terms.txt gefunden
  -> dropbox.service gefunden
  -> dropbox@.service gefunden
  -> Lade dropbox-lnx.x86_64-178.4.4811.tar.gz herunter...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  108M  100  108M    0     0  16.7M      0  0:00:06  0:00:06 --:--:-- 17.7M
  -> Lade dropbox-lnx.x86_64-178.4.4811.tar.gz.asc herunter...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   488  100   488    0     0   4226      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  4243
==> Überprüfe source Dateien mit sha256sums...
    DropboxGlyph_Blue.svg ... Erfolg
    terms.txt ... Erfolg
    dropbox.service ... Erfolg
    dropbox@.service ... Erfolg
==> Überprüfe source_x86_64 Dateien mit sha256sums...
    dropbox-lnx.x86_64-178.4.4811.tar.gz ... Erfolg
    dropbox-lnx.x86_64-178.4.4811.tar.gz.asc ... Übersprungen
==> Überprüfe Signaturen der Quell-Dateien mit gpg...
    dropbox-lnx.x86_64-178.4.4811.tar.gz ... cat: Schreibfehler: Datenübergabe unterbrochen (broken pipe)
FEHLGESCHLAGEN
==> FEHLER: Eine oder mehrere PGP-Signaturen konnten nicht überprüft werden!
Finished with result: exit-code
Main processes terminated with: code=exited/status=1

Reverting a change made in /etc/pacman.conf removed the problem and dropbox installed fine. Thanks for maintaining this!

Details at https://forum.manjaro.org/t/dropbox-package-missing-required-signature/145314

Trying to install the latest update I get "package missing required signature"

Anyone have an idea how to resolve that?

gpg -k returns the correct key

My problem (stuck on starting) is resolved. nothing to do with AUR. if you run into the problem, the solution is chattr -R -i ~\Dropbox and move any files it turns up outside dropbox. more here. https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Apps-and-Installations/dropbox-hangs-on-quot-starting-quot-in-Manjaro-and-in-Fedora-38/m-p/695346. thnx for suggestions!

Hi and thanks for this package maintenance

upon updating to the latest version I am getting the following error during build

makepkg -sic

...
Retrieving sources...
  -> Found DropboxGlyph_Blue.svg
==> ERROR: terms.txt was not found in the build directory and is not a URL.

what should I do? Thanks again!

@rcrath what python version are you running? If it's 3.11, did you rebuild all aur packages after upgrading?

I use Python 3.11.3 and didn’t run into that issue

I am having a problem where dropbox 173.4.6706-1 gets stuck on "starting". If I run it from the command line, the place it gets stuck is on dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/PyQt5.QtDBus.so'.

extra/python-pyqt5 -> 5.15.9-1 contains:

/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/PyQt5/QtDBus.abi3.so /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/PyQt5/QtDBus.pyi

Is the problem with dropbox being built against python 3.10? Anyone else having this issue? I tried downgrading to dropbox snapshot from march 30 but that failed too, so my guess is that the problem is not in dropbox, but I don't know how to figure out what is needed to get it to work again.

@ipaqmaster I have seen that error before It goes away when I delete this folder ~/.cache/yay/dropbox