After using the installation tool from the main dropbox page on Ubuntu 18.04 - LTS (Bionic Beaver), I tried to start it using the dropbox launcher for the app and never started.
Then, I tried to install it for Ubuntu using what is explained in the Ubuntu main page: https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux.
The issue: When I launched the daemon through the terminal using ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
I got the following exception:
File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/thin_client/client.pyc", line 28, in <module>
File "dropbox/foundation/metrics/amp/remote_sink.pyc", line 10, in <module>
ImportError: libatomic.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
!! dropbox: fatal python exception:
['Traceback (most recent call last):\n', ' File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 7919, in main\n',
' File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 7843, in main_startup\n',
' File "dropbox/client/main.pyc", line 942, in __init__\n',
' File "dropbox/sync_engine_boundary/factory.pyc", line 147, in make_default_file_system\n',
' File "dropbox/sync_engine_boundary/factory.pyc", line 99, in __init__\n',
' File "dropbox/sync_engine_boundary/factory.pyc", line 118, in _initialize_classes\n',
' File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/sync_engine.pyc", line 276, in <module>\n',
' File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/thin_adapter/in_proc.pyc", line 98, in <module>\n',
' File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/classic_client/wrapped_thin_client.pyc", line 26, in <module>\n',
' File "dropbox/sync_engine/nucleus/thin_client/client.pyc", line 28, in <module>\n',
' File "dropbox/foundation/metrics/amp/remote_sink.pyc", line 10, in <module>\n',
'ImportError: libatomic.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory\n'] (error 3)
Aborted (core dumped)
How can I solve this?