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Can't install nautilus-dropbox on Centos 8

I try to install dropbox on Centos8, however Terminal gives strange errors. Tried different commands, same error.

Firstly downloaded *.rpm file from dropbox website, currently trying to install it.

Commands I tried:

rpm -ivh nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04-1.fedora.x86_64.rpm
yum localinstall nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04-1.fedora.x86_64.rpm

Error:

Last metadata expiration check: 0:18:27 ago on Thu 12 Mar 2020 03:46:17 PM EET
Error:
Problem: conflicting requests
nothing provides libgnome >= %{gnome_version} needed by nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04-1.fc21.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)
[root@localhost Downloads]

Also tried --skip-broken and --nobest – but no luck.

Also tried sudo yum install libgnome but it gives error:

Last metadata expiration check: 9:51:39 ago on Thu 12 Mar 2020 02:42:06 PM UTC.
No match for argument: libgnome
Error: Unable to find a match: libgnome

I have:


[adminuser@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core)

Tried to google this mistake, but no luck. Could you please give me any hint how I could overcome this?

Thank you

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  1. 0

    This is a bug in packaging. Contact Dropbox support and report it as a bug.

    Technical details (just in case you are Dropbox employee):
    During building rpm, when you use macro then it is expanded. Try yoursel:

    $ rpm --eval '%{_bindir}'
/usr/bin

    However, when the macro is not defined, you get original value:

    $ rpm --eval '%{some_bullshit}'
%{some_bullshit}

    So the macro gnome_version should likely contain some version, but this macro was not defined.

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  2. 0

    nothing provides libgnome

    “libgnome” is about libgnome-2 → https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/ → I.e. Fedora only packages. CentOS 8 has no libgnome* available.

    https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux → Compile from source → CentOS 8

    # dnf install nautilus-devel-3.28.1-10.el8.x86_64 python3-docutils

tar xvf nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04.tar.bz2
cd nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04/
./configure && make
# make install

    Result : nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04-1.el8.x86_64.rpm https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AcxlVdbWOzQvcoVOFYCiaVny9MzgC-Ea/view?usp=sharing

    # rpm -Uvh nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04-1.el8.x86_64.rpm : No issues.

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  3. 0

    First, realize that the command showing at the install page is for the headless installation. It will probably work, but my preference is to use Dropbox with nautilus integration.

    This instructions assumes a installation of Dropbox with Nautilus integration.

    1. We need to compile the installer from source.

    a. Download last package

    wget https://linux.dropbox.com/packages/nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04.tar.bz2

    b. Extract tarball

    tar xjf ./nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04.tar.bz2

    c. Try to compile

    cd nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04; ./configure;

    Then you get an Error:

    Erro: 
 Problema: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides libgnome >= %{gnome_version} needed by nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04-1.fc21.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

    Now we need to install nautilus-devel and python3-docutils

    NOTE: You will get configure: error: couldn't find docutils if forget python3-docutils.

    This command will enable the PowerTools repository and install what is needed:

        dnf --enablerepo=PowerTools install nautilus-devel python3-docutils

    Now you can run ./configure && sudo make install

    1. That’s it. Go for the start menu type "Dropbox", it will start the installer.

    2. Restore a local backup of Dropbox (optional)

    If you have a local backup, turn of the network after you see the Dropbox folder created. Then copy all your files to that folder and turn it on after copy.

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    This solution worked for me running CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core).

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