Dropbox missing from package manager

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I just did a fresh install of Manjaro, and now I can’t find Dropbox in the Package Manager. I’ve checked “Enable AUR support” in the Third Party tab, and I’ve refreshed the database, but Dropbox can not be found.

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Has Dropbox been removed from the repository?

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It may be noted that dropbox or any variant thereof is not present in the official repositories.

To my knowledge it was never there.
There are some packages in the AUR though.

This would be roughly the approach.
Did you sort mirrors?

For whatever reason there have been a few threads about ‘enabling AUR in pamac does not make AUR available’ … but most or all eventually resolve with no clear rationale.

Like here

You may also consider alternative package managers and/or aur-helpers.

yay, paru, and trizen are among the favorites for aur-helpers that are frontends for pacman.

pacman being the default package manager of Arch, that is included in manjaro, that is exceedingly reliable but cli-only.

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I had it via AUR before, but there was an issue (it always showed ‘connecting’) which I fixed by purging that, and installing via flatpak instead.

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I enabled flatpack, refreshed the database, and it’s still not showing up in the package manager. I have no idea what’s going on.

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Open a terminal:

❯ flatpak install dropbox
Looking for matches…
Remotes found with refs similar to ‘dropbox’:

   1) ‘flathub’ (system)
   2) ‘flathub’ (user)

Which do you want to use (0 to abort)? [0-2]:

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Annoyingly AUR is borked in pamac for me too.

pamac fails with AUR again... 
pamac search dropbox
Failed to read AUR data from /var/lib/pacman/sync/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz : Error opening file /var/lib/pacman/sync/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz: No such file or directory

Using yay dropbox

1 aur/dropbox 214.4.5217-1 (+2375 1.94)
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Okay, well, that gets me a little further. I was able to install with flatpak and start the application, but there was no option to login, and trying to install with yay gives me the error, “Cannot find the fakeroot binary.”

It’s too late in the day right now for me to mess around with this further (I’m tired and likely to make a mistake), so I’ll figure it out later. It just seems like the package manager is not working like it’s supposed to, which is annoying.

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Purge the config files and connect fresh.

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Using the AUR requires prerequisites - in this case base-devel.

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Dropbox is available as a Flatpak or via the AUR.

If you enable AUR and or Flatpak in pamac-gui, you will find them.

Alternately you can use

flatpak install dropbox

in the CLI, or

yay -S dropbox
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An update to pamac should be passing on shortly - should fix the issue

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Sweet! \o/

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I got this resolved. In order to use yay, I needed to first run

>sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel

to download the requisite packages (that was the cause of the “Cannot find the fakeroot binary” error). After that

>yay dropbox

worked as expected, and now I have Dropbox up and running again.

Thanks for everyone’s help.

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As this is news to you I might guess you have not familiarized yourself with the Arch User Repository. This is a requirement otherwise you may run into other problems in the future.
I suggest looking over the wiki(s).

Arch User Repository - Manjaro
Arch User Repository - ArchWiki

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See also:

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