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skillian

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Registered: 2016-05-05

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Certificate trust issue when trying to install Dropbox

I was trying to install Dropbox onto my new Arch linux installation onto an old Dell PowerEdge 400sc.  I tried to download and burn the latest ISO (archlinux-2016.01.01-dual.iso) to a CD-ROM, but it was too large.  I instead had to install Arch from a much older 2014 disc that I already had.  During the installation, I had to update the Arch Linux keyring and ca-certificates and otherwise, the installation went smoothly.

When I tried to install Dropbox by downloading the tarball with the command specified on Dropbox's site:

cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86" | tar xzf -

Wget complained with the following error:

--2016-05-19 15:00:59--  https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86
Resolving www.dropbox.com (www.dropbox.com)... 162.125.4.1
Connecting to www.dropbox.com (www.dropbox.com)|162.125.4.1|:443... connected.
ERROR: cannot verify www.dropbox.com's certificate, issued by ‘CN=DigiCert SHA2 Extended Validation Server CA,OU=www.digicert.com,O=DigiCert Inc,C=US’:
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
To connect to www.dropbox.com insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

After some Googling, I tried again updating my arch-keyring and ca-certificates, but that did not help.  I tried re-updating and re-installing, but that didn't help either.  What I instead tried to do is this:

sudo pacman -Rdsu ca-certificates

sudo pacman -Scc

sudo pacman -Syy ca-certificates

After running those commands, wget no longer complains about certificates not being trusted!

Last edited by skillian (2016-05-19 19:19:19)

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] Certificate trust issue when trying to install Dropbox

Make sure you now do a full system update.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … nsupported

Mod note: moving to NC.

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TheChickenMan

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Registered: 2015-07-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Certificate trust issue when trying to install Dropbox

Is there a reason why you're not using the dropbox package from the AUR?

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