I am having problems installing Dropbox in a recently installed version of PM5. When I click the Dropbox icon in the internet section it comes up with ‘In order to use Dropbkx you must download the propriety daemon’
I have done this several times and it just locks at ‘download compete 100%’
Software manger shows it’s installed but won’t show on task bar even after reboot.
Any ideas?
This was fixed with an update … so run a full system update:
sudo apt update
then
sudo apt upgrade
then
sudo apt dis-upgrade
then REBOOT
Now try dropbox again
Worked a treat. 
Cured the home folder encryption too.
Thanks Mark.
If you’ve encrypted the home folder … can I suggest you run:
ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase
and when prompted for your password, enter your Peppermint login password.
You should then be presented with the mount key for mounting the encrypted home … write down the generated mount key somewhere safe (NOT on the PC) … if you ever kill your OS, you’ll need this key to be able to access the encrypted home, say via a LiveUSB.
This is “supposed” to get run on first boot, but doesn’t … it’s in the release notes:
http://peppermintos.com/release-notes/
Can I ask what encrypted home folder issue you were referring to ?
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Thanks. Just done that.
The issue was simply that in previous versions when asked if I wanted to encrypt the Home folder the random password generator came up straight away. This time it didn’t.
but it came up “on its own” after an update ?
As soon as I updated and rebooted it came up and I generated a password.
OK, thanks Toonman
You’re welcome.