Dropbox syntax error

I do not believe dropbox is running. running dropbox status generates an error. When I invoke dropbox from a terminal, I am getting an error message

~$ dropbox File "/usr/bin/dropbox", line 232 except OSError, e: ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

For context the rest of that section of the file reads:

 with closing(sock) as f: yield (0, True) while True: try: chunk = f.read(bufsize) progress += len(chunk) buf.write(chunk) yield (float(progress)/size, True) if progress == size: break except OSError, e: if hasattr(e, 'errno') and e.errno == errno.EAGAIN: # nothing left to read yield (float(progress)/size, False) else: raise

However I am out of my depth and don't know how to proceed with fixing the problem.

I tried to reinstall dropbox and recieved this message:

~$ sudo apt install --reinstall dropbox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reinstallation of dropbox is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.

Ubuntu Software lists Dropbox in the gui as one of the installed packages. However when I try to remove it to reinstall, I get an error "Unable to remove Dropbox, no packages to remove"

Ubuntu 20.04

Other information:

~$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
ubuntu:GNOME
~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/dropbox
dropbox: /usr/bin/dropbox
Python 3.8.10
Python2 2.7.18
Python3 3.8.10
~$ apt-cache policy dropbox
dropbox: Installed: 2015.10.28
Candidate: 2015.10.28 Version table: *** 2015.10.28 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

1 Answer

I would recommend to remove the locally installed dropbox package by

sudo apt-get remove dropbox

and install Nautilus-Dropbox instead by

sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox