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Confusing packages for plain Linux downloaders #77

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archfrog opened this issue Nov 18, 2019 · 0 comments
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Confusing packages for plain Linux downloaders #77

archfrog opened this issue Nov 18, 2019 · 0 comments

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Hi,

I switched to Manjara Linux (Arch Linux) a day ago. I'm not a Linux newbie, but when you try to download the latest installer package for Linux, you are met with a list of eleven (11) packages that all have the same date and no clear indication of which one is the most recent. I picked the nautilus-dropbox-2.10.0.tar.bz2 package, guessing that it was the most recent version.

My install worked fine, though, until I had to change /usr/bin/python to point at python3 because of wanting to use the GNOME Extension Manager in Chromium. Then Dropbox suddenly stopped launching, even when I manually started it from GNOME. Eventually, I launched it directly from the console, to see what was going on, and was greeted with the "Incorrect shebang line" error (that dropbox earlier on referenced python instead of python2), which I manually fixed.

So what I am trying to say is that I'd like to suggest that you only keep the most recent package in the latest installer package folder and move all the others out of the way so that we end-users can spend our time on other things than debugging and wanting to report already fixed issues :-)

Cheers,
Archfrog

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