Package Details: dropbox 214.4.5217-1

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: 2375
Popularity: 1.90
First Submitted: 2009-01-22 14:21 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-01-02 23:31 (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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joaompinto commented on 2016-02-25 20:34 (UTC)

Hello mtorromeo, I will take a look at your comments and improve my PKGBUILD. I hope you do the same and understand why people care about using official download links, with proper SSL certificates, from the software provider, and not from a 3rd party. SSL was invented for a reason, encryption and identity. While encryption is not a requirement for this case. Identity is. Please check the following: curl -vq https://dropbox.com 2>&1 | grep "subject" curl -vq https://d1ilhw0800yew8.cloudfront.net/ 2>&1 | grep "subject" To validate your statement "cloudfrount links ARE OFFICIAL" people will need to download from https://dropbox.com, run a sha256sum on the resulting files, and check against your PKGBUILD sha256sum.

mtorromeo commented on 2016-02-24 10:27 (UTC)

STOP wasting my time and spamming everyone's mailboxes with useless requests to change the download URLs. The cloudfrount links ARE OFFICIAL release locations.

mtorromeo commented on 2016-02-24 10:25 (UTC)

@lamego.pinto: You are not even downloading the specific pkgver so your PKGBUILD will break at every release.

joaompinto commented on 2016-02-24 10:17 (UTC)

Please update with links to the official dropbox client download site: I have done and tested, you can get it from: https://github.com/MyWayOS/AUR_patches/blob/master/dropbox/PKGBUILD

oberon2007 commented on 2016-02-16 02:58 (UTC)

Thank you for this package! New stable release 3.14.5 is available now: https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/205672126-Stable-Build-3-14-5

mtorromeo commented on 2016-02-07 10:46 (UTC)

That was an official location. And I updated the URL anyway so please drop this argument already...

mathieu.clabaut commented on 2016-02-07 09:11 (UTC) (edited on 2016-02-07 09:17 (UTC) by mathieu.clabaut)

I also have some concerns, for that I observe a strange behaviour where dropbox continuously upload data ever when everything is synced and there are no reason for uploading a vast quantity of data ! I don't know if it is a bug or an intended behaviour, but I do not feel easy about having this piece of software coming from unofficial location. However, comparing the md5sum of the targz with the one from https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64 gives the same results

silverhammermba commented on 2016-02-02 18:15 (UTC) (edited on 2016-02-02 18:15 (UTC) by silverhammermba)

@joelpet, I also see the cloudfront URL. I would certainly feel better about this package if the sources were updated to the official ones. For now I think I'll retract my vote.

joelpet commented on 2016-01-28 03:23 (UTC)

I share @ron89's concern that the source is downloaded from a (seemingly) arbitrary Dropbox user's content. I assume the URL was originally taken from https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/topics/200210355-Desktop-Client-Builds where official (?) Desktop Client Builds are posted and then just kept the same for each new release. However, when I visit https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/203932093-Stable-Build-3-12-6 now, the download URL is instead https://d1ilhw0800yew8.cloudfront.net/client/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-3.12.6.tar.gz. That file's SHA1 sum (9836b0b37f6d0d7527f4449d3109f2bbaf32d48c) matches the one at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-3.12.6.tar.gz, and none of the URLs seem to redirect to the other. Am I alone in seeing the cloudfront.net URL on the Desktop Client Builds page? If not, how about updating PKGBUILD to reflect this change of URL? Thank you for making this package available.

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