Question
How to configure Dropbox on Ubuntu 20.04
- Posted on July 13, 2021
- PythonUbuntu 20.04
Asked by ccnyc
I am following an old guide (which is the most up-to-date that I could locate) for setting up Dropbox on an Ubuntu droplet (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-dropbox-client-as-a-service-on-ubuntu-14-04), and am running into errors.
I can download and extract everything just fine, but when I run /opt/dropbox/dropboxd it fails and aborts. Apparently it cannot run python??
$> /opt/dropbox/dropboxd
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-126.4.4618/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-126.4.4618/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-126.4.4618/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-126.4.4618/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-126.4.4618/apex._apex.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-126.4.4618/tornado.speedups.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-126.4.4618/wrapt._wrappers.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/opt/dropbox/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-126.4.4618/PyQt5.QtWidgets.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
RUST PANICKING -- "Failed to run Python command!" at "app/lib/core/bootstrap/src/python.rs":127
Aborted
$> which python
$> which python3
/usr/bin/python3
I am using a freshly generated droplet with Ubuntu 20.04. Has anyone experienced this before?
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Update: SOLVED!
It turns out that not all dependencies needed are installed by default, which the article from Ubuntu 14.04 failed to mention. Here is what I needed to do first:
After installing these packages, I continued the guide and was able to get Dropbox installed.