Dropbox Installation

: PGP keys need importing:
 -> 1C61A2656FB57B7E4DE0F4C1FC918B335044912E, required by: dropbox
:: 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 ~]$ 

Why me!!! :angry:

Even try this one in terminal?

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

I just tried this keyserver and worked for me.

Nice, this one doesn’t work for me

[lain@wired ~]$ gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys FC918B335044912E
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No keyserver available

:female_detective:

What about manual import

wget https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc

gpg --import rpm-public-key.asc

:smiley: I got below.

[p@arch ~]$ gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys FC918B335044912E
gpg: key FC918B335044912E: “Dropbox Automatic Signing Key linux@dropbox.com” not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: unchanged: 1

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Conclusion : GPG is strange

[limo@lenovo ~]$ gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys FC918B335044912E
gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/home/limo/.gnupg'
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No data
[limo@lenovo ~]$ 

No data
Maybe their server is down! Try later perhaps?

Try the manual way once

How to do it?

Run these commands

wget https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc

gpg --import rpm-public-key.asc
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[limo@lenovo ~]$ wget https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc
--2021-09-17 14:07:37--  https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc
SSL_INIT
Loaded CA certificate '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
Resolving linux.dropbox.com (linux.dropbox.com)... 216.137.37.7, 216.137.37.118, 216.137.37.126, ...
Connecting to linux.dropbox.com (linux.dropbox.com)|216.137.37.7|:443... connected.

still waiting!

It should have taken 1-2 seconds at most

CTL C
then again did it, I had

wget https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc
--2021-09-17 14:11:54--  https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc
SSL_INIT
Loaded CA certificate '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
Resolving linux.dropbox.com (linux.dropbox.com)... 216.137.37.7, 216.137.37.12, 216.137.37.126, ...
Connecting to linux.dropbox.com (linux.dropbox.com)|216.137.37.7|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 975 [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘rpm-public-key.asc’

rpm-public-key.asc       100%[==================================>]     975  --.-KB/s    in 0s      

2021-09-17 14:11:55 (6.91 MB/s) - ‘rpm-public-key.asc’ saved [975/975]

[limo@lenovo ~]$ 

ok now import it with this command

gpg --import rpm-public-key.asc

Seems we are almost there! I hope.

[limo@lenovo ~]$ gpg --import rpm-public-key.asc
gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/home/limo/.gnupg'
gpg: key FC918B335044912E: public key "Dropbox Automatic Signing Key <linux@dropbox.com>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
[limo@lenovo ~]$ 

Looks like a success to me!

Now, finally try installing dropbox

yay -S dropbox --noconfirm

WOW!
Finally appeared in my menu!
Thanks a lot flyingcakes and thanks a lot QAP

This forum and you guys are amazing! :+1: :+1: :+1:

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nice got there in end! welcome to forum and spread the word!

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Just curious, does installing from yay compile from source? I read the messages while installing Dropbox and catfish, seemed to me it was compiling something on my machine.
I hope you brief answer and guide me to read more! Please.
Thank you.

Yes but you can use just binaries instead where already compiled and for faster install.

i.e. notice how more votes and can choose brave-bin instead of brave below as example.

Brave Browser

Find the software you want and install using pacman command from Official Repo

If not there then yay command to install from Unofficial Arch User Repo . Look at votes, comments and package not out of date first.

But forum will always help best they can if create separate thread. Lots of reading from Arch wiki and Distrotube is great youtube channel for knowledge! :slight_smile:

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