Re: Jami snap broken on Ubuntu 20.04

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Julius Schwartzenberg <julius.schwartzenberg@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

The speed of 'guix pull' to update Guix itself is still on the too slow
side of things (tens of minutes) but getting updates through 'guix
install' or 'guix upgrade' should be relatively fast (typically fetches
binaries at ~1.5/2 MiB/s) as long as there are binary substitutes
(prebuilt binaries) available.

> 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 :)

I think 'apt install guix' is a thing, thanks to Vagrant's efforts on
Debian.

Anyway, glad your problem got resolved!

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim