Dropbox Installation

type in terminal and hit enter

yay -S dropbox --noconfirm

Then just run Dropbox from XFCE applications menu or it may show in system tray. It should open web browser to link your dropbox account.

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: 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.