Install Dropbox in Ubuntu

  Dropbox is my working directory but it doesn't work when it is just installed on Ubuntu. I did it in Software Center and it seemed to be installed. When I tried to launch it, it requires the password for super user, and then nothing happened.

I tried the following commands and it works.

          sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dropbox/.dropbox-dist

          dropbox start -i

  It can be seen that the Dropbox starts to downloading now. That is probably the actual installation and that's why the password is required before.


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If still does not work for you...try to remove the Dropbox and re-install it again.

           sudo apt-get remove nautilus-dropbox

But there may be problems like:

  "dpkg status database is locked by another process"

Try
            sudo dpkg --configure -a
but not necessary it does the job...it just finishes the unfinished work...anyway it worked for me. Some even say dpkg should never be manually setup. I think it might be easier and safer to just reboot.

Now we could re-install the Dropbox from the .deb package.

            sudo dpkg -i dropbox_2015.02.12_amd64.deb 

Hope it works for you. If not, please comment to share the problems or solutions. Thanks in advance.