Package Details: dropbox 211.4.6008-1

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: 2374
Popularity: 1.54
First Submitted: 2009-01-22 14:21 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-10-30 08:51 (UTC)

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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..."

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>

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):

  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

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zjagannatha commented on 2017-02-06 02:49 (UTC)

@figue: that's awesome! works like a charm for me. One minor note, you should add this: makedepends=("wget")

figue commented on 2017-02-04 16:55 (UTC) (edited on 2017-02-04 16:58 (UTC) by figue)

Hi @mtorromeo maybe you can change PKGBUILD to something like this: 1. Get latest version checking dropbox's official url. 2. Add a pkgver() function to change package version in build time. 3. Done. The bad thing is checksums need to be skipped. Here you can see a diff with my proposal: https://hastebin.com/iwakomeruc.pl Cheers Edit: I forgot to add wget as a makedepend...

cbrnr commented on 2017-01-20 07:50 (UTC)

Thanks @mtorromeo!

<deleted-account> commented on 2017-01-19 07:53 (UTC)

Release 17.4.33-1 fails when installing: "error: failed to commit transaction (package missing required signature)"

Alexpin commented on 2016-12-21 20:12 (UTC)

@cbrnr I was skeptical of URLs used to host user data because in principle they could be used to host malicious clients. However, after figuring out that the official link points to that URL, I'm definitely ok with downloading dropbox from there. @mtorromeo Thanks for your time and patience.

mtorromeo commented on 2016-12-21 18:10 (UTC)

I updated the URLs since there are many users that are having problems with the cloudfront ones. I have tested them again anyway and they were still working fine for me. No 404 and no redirects either. Just a straight 200 OK with the download data. Just to be clear, I am not ignoring the users with actual problems like this one but I have disabled the notifications in this thread a long time ago. I have too many packages to maintain to waste my time on the pointless requests that many users have been making here and I'm sorry for everybody else with actual issues.

doraskayo commented on 2016-12-21 15:00 (UTC) (edited on 2016-12-21 15:02 (UTC) by doraskayo)

@mtorromeo, it appears there's a misunderstanding here. The source URLs actually give 404 responses to many users, including myself. When I visit the Dropbox website to download the "Headless Install" for x86_64 Linux, the URL listed is the following: https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64 When visiting that URL with network inspection (F12 in Chromium), I can see that it redirects to this URL: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-16.4.29.tar.gz I tried to see if this URL scheme can be used to download earlier versions of Dropbox as well, and it seems that it was able to fetch every single version of this package since its initial commit (3.4.6). Therefore, I can only conclude that Dropbox has probably changed the location in which they host their downloads, and that because of some weird funky caching, it appears that the old URL scheme still works, but only for some users. Regardless, the new URL scheme appears stable and reliable, even for older versions. It works well for me, and hopefully for everyone else as well.

wooque commented on 2016-12-21 14:12 (UTC)

I'm also getting 404 for links, changed URLs as crbnr suggested to successfully install Dropbox. I'm from East Europe if it matters.

GordonGR commented on 2016-12-21 12:51 (UTC)

*rolls his eyes and disables notifications, so he can avoid the contant trolling*

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