[solved] Dropbox install error

[brendlefly62]

I have dropbox installed on another Gentoo desktop, but got this (below) today on a newer box. It looks like the source server is refusing to allow download of the icon... which I can download manually after a captcha ckeck. See also my emerge --info at wgetpaste linked at the bottom --

edit: not really a "solution" -- but after waiting a few hours, I tried again and it worked. So, now marking this "solved" since I don't have the problem anymore

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# emerge -av net-misc/dropbox

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
Dependency resolution took 0.66 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild  N    ~] net-misc/dropbox-226.4.5094-r1::gentoo  USE="X (-selinux)" 1 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 1 KiB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] 

>>> Verifying ebuild manifests

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) net-misc/dropbox-226.4.5094-r1::gentoo
 * dropbox-lnx.x86_64-226.4.5094.tar.gz BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ...               [ ok ]
>>> Downloading 'https://uxwing.com/wp-content/themes/uxwing/download/brands-and-social-media/dropbox-icon.svg'
--2025-06-16 13:12:17--  https://uxwing.com/wp-content/themes/uxwing/download/brands-and-social-media/dropbox-icon.svg
Resolving uxwing.com... 162.159.136.54, 162.159.137.54, 2606:4700:7::a29f:8936, ...
Connecting to uxwing.com|162.159.136.54|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2025-06-16 13:12:17 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

!!! Couldn't download 'dropbox-icon.svg'. Aborting.

>>> Failed to emerge net-misc/dropbox-226.4.5094-r1, Log file:

>>>  '/var/log/portage/net-misc:dropbox-226.4.5094-r1:20250616-171216.log'

wgetpaste -s pgz -c "emerge -av net-misc/dropbox --info"
https://paste.gentoo.zip/WBvGz8BX

[fedeliallalinea]

Here no problem to download icon

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$ wget https://uxwing.com/wp-content/themes/uxwing/download/brands-and-social-media/dropbox-icon.svg
--2025-06-16 19:52:05--  https://uxwing.com/wp-content/themes/uxwing/download/brands-and-social-media/dropbox-icon.svg
Resolving uxwing.com... 162.159.136.54, 162.159.137.54, 2606:4700:7::a29f:8836, ...
Connecting to uxwing.com|162.159.136.54|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [image/svg+xml]
Saving to: ‘dropbox-icon.svg’

dropbox-icon.svg                                        [ <=>                                                                                                              ]     574  --.-KB/s    in 0s      

2025-06-16 19:52:05 (581 MB/s) - ‘dropbox-icon.svg’ saved [574]

[brendlefly62]

Thanks for the response, fedeliallalinea. I know that, as I said, in OP - I also have no problem manually downloading the file -- my question is why is the ebuild choking on it?

As it turns out -- I waited a couple hours and tried again, and now it works.

My philosophy - if you can't say what you changed, you didn't fix it [but I'll mark this solved anyway]

[fedeliallalinea]

Thanks for the response, fedeliallalinea. I know that, as I said, in OP - I also have no problem manually downloading the file -- my question is why is the ebuild choking on it?

The ebuild runs simply wget and check the checksum of dowloaded file, so the problem, so in my opinion the problem cannot be portage.