I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 on Lenovo G50 and tried installing Dropbox. Using terminal I get the following output:
michael@michael-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ sudo apt-get -y install nautilus-dropbox
[sudo] password for michael:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
nautilus-dropbox : Depends: dropbox but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
michael@michael-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ ^C
michael@michael-Lenovo-G50-30:~$
Nautilus appears to be working fine. Any ideas?
Regards.
Sadly got the same result. Here is output:-
michael@michael-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge nautilus-dropbox
[sudo] password for michael:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package ‘nautilus-dropbox’ is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
account-plugin-windows-live libupstart1
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 12 not to upgrade.
michael@michael-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ sudo apt-get install dropbox nautilus-dropbox
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
dropbox is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
dropbox : Breaks: nautilus-dropbox
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
michael@michael-Lenovo-G50-30:~$
Here is the output, which I hope you can make sense of. Meanwhile I shall try a fresh install from Dropbox site.
michael@michael-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge dropbox nautilus-dropbox
[sudo] password for michael:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package ‘nautilus-dropbox’ is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
account-plugin-windows-live libupstart1
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED
dropbox*
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 to remove and 12 not to upgrade.
After this operation, 414 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database … 228666 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing dropbox (2015.02.12) …
Purging configuration files for dropbox (2015.02.12) …
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) …
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) …
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) …
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) …
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) …
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index…
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) …
michael@michael-Lenovo-G50-30:~$ sudo apt-get install dropbox
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package dropbox is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ‘dropbox’ has no installation candidate
michael@michael-Lenovo-G50-30:~$
