Nautilus missing dependencies on Rocky Linux 9

[martinmarques]

Hello, I have been using nautilus-dropbox on older Fedora (up to 30 and 31) with no problem just installing the available packages. I just moved from Fedora to Rocky Linux 9 a week ago and wanted to get the app installed so it would download the files directly, with no luck.

Packages don't seem to satisfy dependencies on Rocky 9 (this is a clone of RHEL 9 so I would expect to see the same issue on RHEL or Alma Linux 9 as well):

# dnf install ./nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04-1.fedora.x86_64.rpm 
Last metadata expiration check: 2:31:45 ago on Sun Sep 25 16:51:16 2022.
Error: 
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides libgnome >= %{gnome_version} needed by nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04-1.fc21.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

So I moved to the next best thing, which I might be a little rusty given that I haven't been compiling open source code in some time (you know, there are packages, why go into so much trouble). Here I have a similar, although different issue when running configure:

checking for pkg-config... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for NAUTILUS... no
configure: error: Package requirements (libnautilus-extension >= 2.16.0) were not met:

Package 'libnautilus-extension', required by 'virtual:world', not found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables NAUTILUS_CFLAGS
and NAUTILUS_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

On this version of Rocky Linux there's nothing that would satisfy that dependency which is missing.

[CoolSpot]

dnf --enablerepo=PowerTools install nautilus-devel
would satisfy libnautilus-extension

then you should be able to compile nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04.tar.bz2 as the following:

cd nautilus-dropbox-2020.03.04; ./configure; 
sudo make install
killall nautilus

Start "Files" app and observe Dropbox integration being active and visible.