Dropbox Installation

Hi,
This is my first post after my introductory post here.

Just installed Endeavour (XFCE), installed pamac as well.

I tried to install Dropbox but through command line nothing really happens, through pamac I get a messsga like unable to verify signature.
I tried some guidance as I saw here on the forum, but no luck yet.

and others…
Any help highly appreciated.
Thank you.

Exactly what package were trying to install? The package dropbox from AUR installs fine for me.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dropbox/

yay -S dropbox

edit:

The link you posted shows installation manually - which is perfectly ok, but EndeavourOS comes preinstalled with yay so you can just run the command above and it will do all that for you.

Maybe install below as required package from Arch Wiki.

python-gpgme

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here are the results:

[limo@lenovo ~]$ yay -S dropbox
:: There are 4 providers available for dropbox:
:: Repository AUR
    1) dropbox 2) dropbox-gtk2 3) kfilebox 4) kfilebox-qt5-git 

Enter a number (default=1): 
:: Checking for conflicts...
:: Checking for inner conflicts...
[Aur:1]  dropbox-131.4.3968-1

  1 dropbox                          (Build Files Exist)
==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 

:scream:

type n and hit enter

As far as I know it mentioned something about signature or so… in pamac it took me in loops.

=> n
:: PKGBUILD up to date, Skipping (1/1): dropbox
  1 dropbox                          (Build Files Exist)
==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 

type n and hit enter

==> n
:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: dropbox

:: PGP keys need importing:
 -> 1C61A2656FB57B7E4DE0F4C1FC918B335044912E, required by: dropbox
==> Import? [Y/n] Y
:: Importing keys with gpg...
gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/home/limo/.gnupg'
gpg: key FC918B335044912E: no user ID
gpg: Total number processed: 1
problem importing keys
[limo@lenovo ~]$ 

problem importing keys

Run this

gpg --recv-keys 1C61A2656FB57B7E4DE0F4C1FC918B335044912E

then try installing again

edit

pinned comment on package page

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dropbox/

[limo@lenovo ~]$ gpg --recv-keys 1C61A2656FB57B7E4DE0F4C1FC918B335044912E
gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir ‘/home/limo/.gnupg’
gpg: key FC918B335044912E: no user ID
gpg: Total number processed: 1
[limo@lenovo ~]$

[limo@lenovo ~]$ yay -S dropbox
:: There are 4 providers available for dropbox:
:: Repository AUR
    1) dropbox 2) dropbox-gtk2 3) kfilebox 4) kfilebox-qt5-git 

Enter a number (default=1): 
:: Checking for conflicts...
:: Checking for inner conflicts...
[Aur:1]  dropbox-131.4.3968-1

  1 dropbox                          (Build Files Exist)
==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 

Just proceed like before

n then enter

limo@lenovo ~]$ n
bash: n: command not found
[limo@lenovo ~]$ 

That’s strange! :crazy_face:
Let me restart!

Wait I think we need to pedal back a little bit.

You should check out a video or article about yay.

Type in terminal and hit enter, keep hit enter if any options given to follow through install. It will just select default option.

sudo pacman -S python-gpgme

Then

gpg --recv-keys 1C61A2656FB57B7E4DE0F4C1FC918B335044912E

If does not work then another keyserver can be used

gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys FC918B335044912E

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limo@lenovo ~]$ sudo pacman -S python-gpgme
[sudo] password for limo: 
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (1)        New Version  Net Change  Download Size

core/python-gpgme  1.16.0-1       1.27 MiB       0.22 MiB

Total Download Size:   0.22 MiB
Total Installed Size:  1.27 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages...
 python-gpgme-1.16.0-1-x86_64    230.3 KiB   201 KiB/s 00:01 [--------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                               [--------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                             [--------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                  [--------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                            [--------------------------------] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) installing python-gpgme                                [--------------------------------] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
[limo@lenovo ~]$ 

[limo@lenovo ~]$ gpg --recv-keys 1C61A2656FB57B7E4DE0F4C1FC918B335044912E
gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/home/limo/.gnupg'
gpg: key FC918B335044912E: no user ID
gpg: Total number processed: 1
[limo@lenovo ~]$ 

Is it OK now? Hopefully! :crossed_fingers:

Start up Dropbox and lets see :slight_smile:

Did they install dropbox yet?

not there yet!
Should install? pamac or command line?