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holiday

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[SOLVED]dependencies for 'headless' dropbox

As the wiki points out (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dropbox), Dropbox has a link for a headless installation and indeed that works well enough but at runtime we get this error :

ImportError: libglapi.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
 (error 3)
Aborted (core dumped)

That wiki (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dropbox/) lists dependencies that include X11, fonts, and perhaps other packages not required and incompatible with a headless configuration but I need at least some of those dependencies.

How can I identify which packages require X?

Is a headless Dropbox not possible with current packages?

Last edited by holiday (2021-06-25 19:35:01)

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Re: [SOLVED]dependencies for 'headless' dropbox

Headless usually means "no screen needed" and says  nothing about having (some parts of) X present.

Are you looking for a version of dropbox that runs on console and can be managed remotely ?

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holiday

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Re: [SOLVED]dependencies for 'headless' dropbox

Headless usually means "no screen needed" and says  nothing about having (some parts of) X present.

Are you looking for a version of dropbox that runs on console and can be managed remotely ?

Ah. Thank you for that clarification. Yes. I'm looking for dropbox that runs on console and can be managed remotely.

holiday

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Re: [SOLVED]dependencies for 'headless' dropbox

llibglapi.so. is provided by https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libglibutil-git/

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Re: [SOLVED]dependencies for 'headless' dropbox

Library of glib utilities

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libglapi is supposed to provide OpenGL support, are you sure this package can do that ?

dropbox-cli in aur requires dropbox so that does not fulfill your requirements .
Dropbox offers  a business version and has instuctions about using an admin panel .
Maybe ask them about console clients / remote management ?

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holiday

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Re: [SOLVED]dependencies for 'headless' dropbox

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libglapi is supposed to provide OpenGL support, are you sure this package can do that ?

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dropbox-cli in aur requires dropbox so that does not fulfill your requirements .
Dropbox offers  a business version and has instuctions about using an admin panel .
Maybe ask them about console clients / remote management ?

Indeed. I am sure it does NOT do this. I had many windows open and must have been reading the wrong window. 

I posted in error and tried to roll it back here but failed. Perhaps my correction was too short.

So thank you for raising the point and  this opportunity to correct the error.

In the end I installed all the dependencies given in the wiki and now Dropbox works. I'm testing in a VM so I'll go back now and install in smaller sets to identify which packages are required only to support the Manager GUI.

I'll look into documentation about the business version of Dropbox but I'm a hobbyist on a tight budget so can't justify enterprise prices. Good suggestion though for others.

Last edited by holiday (2021-06-25 11:28:33)

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Re: [SOLVED]dependencies for 'headless' dropbox

Mod note: Moving to AUR Issues.

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holiday

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Re: [SOLVED]dependencies for 'headless' dropbox

Of the dependencies listed at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dropbox/   libappindicator-gtk3, listed as optional,  is required to run the dropbox daemon and dropbox-cli. Running without gives the  libglapi,so error in my first post to this topic

Last edited by holiday (2021-06-25 19:34:39)

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Re: [SOLVED]dependencies for 'headless' dropbox

libappindicator-gtk3 depends on libdbusmenu-gtk3 which depends on gtk3 which depends on mesa which provides libglapi.so. You can probably just install mesa and not any of libappindicator and gtk3 packages.

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holiday

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Re: [SOLVED]dependencies for 'headless' dropbox

libappindicator-gtk3 depends on libdbusmenu-gtk3 which depends on gtk3 which depends on mesa which provides libglapi.so. You can probably just install mesa and not any of libappindicator and gtk3 packages.

Exactly so!