Debian: Upgrading Dropbox
TL;DR: Dropbox on my Debian machine had stopped syncing. Turns out it had not been updated in 4 years. Fix was to update Dropbox.
Problem §
I use Dropbox on Debian. It appears to have stopped syncing.
Troubleshooting §
Ran dropbox running to check whether the service is running and got a Python error.
Ran dropbox version and it reported 2020.03.04. That seems very out of date.
Updating Dropbox on Debian §
Went to here and downloaded dropbox_2024.04.17_amd64.deb.
Installed with:
$ sudo apt install ./dropbox_2024.04.17_amd64.deb
[sudo] password for sam:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'dropbox' instead of './dropbox_2024.04.17_amd64.deb'
The following packages will be upgraded:
dropbox
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/76.3 kB of archives.
After this operation, 21.5 kB disk space will be freed.
Get:1 /home/sam/Downloads/dropbox_2024.04.17_amd64.deb dropbox amd64 2024.04.17 [76.3 kB]
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 397393 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../dropbox_2024.04.17_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking dropbox (2024.04.17) over (2020.03.04) ...
Setting up dropbox (2024.04.17) ...
Please restart all running instances of Nautilus, or you will experience problems. i.e. nautilus --quit
Dropbox installation successfully completed! You can start Dropbox from your applications menu.
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1.1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1) ...
Checked that this worked:
$ dropbox version
Dropbox daemon version: 211.3.5889
Dropbox command-line interface version: 2024.04.17
It has upgraded. Dropbox is now on version 2024.04.17.
Dropbox is now syncing. Success!