Re: Jami snap broken on Ubuntu 20.04

[Julius Schwartzenberg]

ср, 17 апр. 2024 г. в 19:34, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>:
> Julius Schwartzenberg <julius.schwartzenberg@gmail.com> writes:
> > Recently Jami stopped working on my system. I get the following output:

The problem has been fixed in the Snap! Many thanks!!


> It looks like yo do not have glibc 2.34 available on your system.
> I'm not knowledgeable about snaps; if they rely on the glibc of the host
> that seems fragile.

Generally a Snap is intended to work across various systems, but it
appears you are right. I just checked with ldd and it seems to use the
system libraries for this. This seems to be a choice made by the
packager though. There are also 'core18', 'core20' and 'core22'
directories below /snap that seem to contain the libraries of the
respective Ubuntu version which packages could depend on.


> In the meantime, if you're interested in trying an alternative; GNU Guix
> can run atop any GNU/Linux system and provides a 'jami' package,
> currently at version 20240325.0.

I have tried GNU Guix in the past, but somehow I often ran into
situation where package installation and refreshing things took a very
long time. I would like to try it again in the future as there are
many packages such as GNU IceCat in GNU Guix that are not available in
Snap or the Ubuntu repositories.

I should note that this particular situation is on my corporate IT
managed laptop, so there are advantages to sticking with the prior
installed packaging tools. (It would be interesting if there could be
a mechanism to install GNU Guix through apt or snap or maybe Snaps
could be generated similarly to how those standalone tarballs can be
generated :)

Best regards,
Julius