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Run the following command in case you got errors during "Verifying source file signatures with gpg..."

gpg --recv-keys 1C61A2656FB57B7E4DE0F4C1FC918B335044912E

Alternatively, you can download Dropbox's public key from https://linux.dropbox.com/fedora/rpm-public-key.asc and import it with:

gpg --import rpm-public-key.asc

You can check whether keys are successfully imported or not using the output of gpg -k. You should find something like this:

pub   rsa2048 2010-02-11 [SC]
      1C61A2656FB57B7E4DE0F4C1FC918B335044912E
uid           [ unknown] Dropbox Automatic Signing Key <linux@dropbox.com>

If you can't run the dropbox@ service normally, try to create a read-only directory ~/.dropbox-dist and run again.

Some useful places for issues about Dropbox itself (not the package):

1. https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Desktop-client-builds/bd-p/101003016 Official Dropbox user feedback forum

2. Arch Linux discussion places: https://bbs.archlinux.org/, #archlinux on freenode.net, https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general

Kind reminder that mtorromeo is a volunteer and we should appreciate the work he does. No need for hostile language.

All these updates and the package is still incompatible with automated AUR helpers because the goddamn dropbox.desktop already exists error is still present. Can you fucking fix this already, it takes all of one -f flag in prepare() and it has been an issue for several YEARS.

same for me, I had to clean ~/.cache/yay/dropbox to be able to recreate the package.

Deleting "~/.cache/paru/clone/dropbox" and installing again also worked for me.

Still manual intervention but simple enough.

Building fresh from the latest tarball (in my case, by removing the old instance of ~/.cache/paru/clone/dropbox and installing again, although the steps needed will depend on which AUR helper is being used, if any) seems to work fine for me now. Thanks @mtorromeo!

I also still get the same error, even with the latest version:

==> Starting package()...
install: cannot stat '/home/xxx/.cache/paru/clone/dropbox/src/DropboxGlyph_Blue.svg': No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...
error: failed to build 'dropbox-239.4.8301-1':
error: packages failed to build: dropbox-239.4.8301-1

I applied the changes recommended by @Lisandro and was able to recompile the package. I needed to make the change even with the latest modifications made to PKGBUILD and SRCINFO (https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=dropbox&id=abc9961bdb97f5d2b025dba017ae197b98cda442). Without them, the package still shows an error.

It's fixed now, sorry about that

The current PKGBUILD fails to build because some auxiliary source files (DropboxGlyph_Blue.svg, terms.txt and systemd service files) are placed one directory above $srcdir, while package() expects them inside it.

This patch corrects the install paths to reflect the actual source layout, restoring a successful build without changing behavior or scope.

Tested locally with makepkg -si on x86_64. Patch below.

From 1e51f1e73a9d6e2bff57e48fdb7d49eac66800d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lisandro Guerra
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:59:04 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix: correct paths for auxiliary files outside $srcdir

---
 PKGBUILD | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 18019f8..c41ffa7 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ package() {
   ln -s ../../opt/dropbox/dropbox "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/dropbox

   install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/dropbox.desktop -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications
-  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/DropboxGlyph_Blue.svg "$pkgdir"/usr/share/pixmaps/dropbox.svg
-  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/terms.txt -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname
-  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/dropbox.service -t "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/systemd/user
-  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/dropbox@.service -t "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/systemd/system
+  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/../DropboxGlyph_Blue.svg "$pkgdir"/usr/share/pixmaps/dropbox.svg
+  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/../terms.txt -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname
+  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/../dropbox.service -t "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/systemd/user
+  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/../dropbox@.service -t "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/systemd/system
 }
-- 
2.52.0

For error: Starting package()... install: cannot stat '/home/xxx/.cache/yay/dropbox/src/DropboxGlyph_Blue.svg': No such file or directory ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package(). Aborting...

following saghm's suggestion, cd'ed into the src folder mentioned in the error. in the PKBUILD file, deleted the ")" and "source=(" in the middle so it's one continuous array and no longer two source arrays. then ran updpkgsums to pass the checksum in the cli and the build was successful