Now you can start in the Dropbox installation process by following the next steps. If it is not installed, you can install it using the following command: sudo apt install wget Of course the first DBUS workaround, simple and with icon for normal user, that is without any of those problems, is the best of them all.Next, make sure that the wget package is installed on your system. It needs recoveries of file ownership, as also described at the first link above. The sudo workaround is not convenient because of the use of root. In this case, also ask John from Dropbox there to disable automatic updates for your account until the bug is hopefully fixed by Dropbox.Ĥ. About another possibility, going back to a previous bug free Dropbox version, such as 3.12.6, see the posts at the latest Stable Build 3.14.7 – Dropbox Community. As I said there, in practice I found that the simple 'dropbox status' workaround without icon is better and more convenient than the other 'sudo dropbox start' workaround with icon, because of the file ownership recoveries for sudo, needed to edit files, etc.ģ. If the DBUS workaround is not working for you, then try the dropbox status workaround, also at that link, rather than the sudo one (workaround 4). If it didn't work for you, please try it again it can take some seconds to start.Ģ. The advised DBUS workaround is the best one and it's working for most people, but not all. For the irresponsive or missing Dropbox tray icon related bugs, there are currently several workarounds to choose, working for Xubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.:ġ.

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