Headless Dropbox issue

posted on 05:55 PM on Saturday 04 January 2025

Doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the linux server and had an issue with headless Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux) wanting to use QT.

The solution was to set thee DISPLAY to an empty string.

DISPLAY='' dropbox.py start

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