After booting up, a popup screen tells me Dropbox did not install correctly, but it is lurking somewhere. To install properly I first have to delete the incorrect install. How can I do that?
I'm using the latest version of Ubuntu.
This is from Dropbox help page:
dropbox stop
dropbox status # Should report "not running"
rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist
rm -rf /var/lib/dropbox
rm -rf ~/.dropbox*
sudo apt-get remove nautilus-dropbox
sudo apt-get remove dropbox
rm /etc/apt/source.d/dropbox
sudo apt-get remove
commands I also get the message Package 'dropbox' is not installed, so not removed
; but if I type dropbox
I get the Dropbox command-line interface
and a list of commands to use.
sudo apt-get remove nautilus-dropbox
, everything seemed to be done. When I ran sudo apt-get remove dropbox
I saw Reading package lists... Done // Building dependency tree // Reading state information... Done // Package 'dropbox' is not installed, so not removed
, and when I ran rm /etc/apt/source.d/dropbox
, I saw rm: cannot remove '/etc/apt/source.d/dropbox': No such file or directory
Try this command in a terminal:
sudo apt-get remove --purge nautilus-dropbox
rm -rvf ~/.dropbox ~/.dropbox-dist; rm -rv ~/Dropbox
to remove all settings made and the last Dropbox folder.
Aug 29, 2016 at 12:11
Based on this link you can follow this steps:
dropbox stop
dropbox status # Should report "not running"
rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist
rm -rf /var/lib/dropbox
rm -rf ~/.dropbox*
sudo apt-get remove nautilus-dropbox
sudo apt-get remove dropbox
rm /etc/apt/source.d/dropbox
And if you want to delete the files that were synced, you can run this command:
rm -rv ~/Dropbox
It works like this:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get purge nautilus-dropbox
sudo apt-get purge nautilus-dropbox
?
I had the same error, because my internet fails
I did this:
sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
sudo rm -r /var/lib/dpkg/lock
Those were directories that were causing troubles
Then i just remove it:
sudo apt-get remove nautilus-dropbox
Pd.- After that I tried to install it again and it works perfectly
I had the same issue and I ran all the above commands without any results. I was not able to uninstall no matter what so instead I ran with sudo apt install nautilus-dropbox and it installed all over again and at last I was able to launch and enter.