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I downloaded Dropbox from the official site and then installed it via Ubuntu's software installer. A message advised me to restart my session, so I logged out and in. No Dropbox.

So I chose Dropbox by searching it and the clicking via Activities. The message about installing Dropbox and then about restarting Nautilus appeared. I made my choices, but no Dropbox.

From command line, I chose dopbox running - no Dropbox. dropbox start gives the following message:

Starting Dropbox...Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1535, in <module>
    ret = main(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1524, in main
    result = commands[argv[i]](argv[i+1:])
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 1395, in start
    if not start_dropbox():
  File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 732, in start_dropbox
    stderr=sys.stderr, stdout=f, close_fds=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 390, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1025, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error

I've tried this over and over with exactly the same result. Anybody know how to install Dropbox?

pomsky
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Fredrik Hansson
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  • "Exec format error" leads me to believe you have a 32-bit system and have installed 64-bit dropbox or vice versa. – waltinator Apr 13 '18 at 15:00
  • No, I definitely have a 64-bit OS. But after I posted I tried to compile from source - first, I didn't have any compiler, but afgter having gotten that, I compiled... and got the same as above. But could I have downloaded 32-bit Dropbox by mistake? Seems strange, but I will look into that. Thanks anyway! – Fredrik Hansson Apr 13 '18 at 16:31
  • Please add the results of file /usr/bin/dropbox;uname -a to your question. – waltinator Apr 13 '18 at 16:49
  • Here's that output: /usr/bin/dropbox: Python script, ASCII text executable, with very long lines – Fredrik Hansson Apr 13 '18 at 16:52
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    Solved: I found this link: https://askubuntu.com/questions/251170/dropbox-wont-start-anymore?rq=1

    and uninstalled dropbox and nautilus-dropbox, then executed rm -rf $HOME/.dropbox-dist

    then installed nautilus-dropbox from command line

    After a second i got the pop-up message sying I should start Dropbox. I did that from command line: dropbox start -i

    and THEN Dropbox started.

     – Fredrik Hansson Apr 13 '18 at 17:18

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