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dom96 / choosenim

Tool for easily installing and managing multiple versions of the Nim programming language.
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possible issue with `update self` breaking choosenim (libcurl) #303

Closed telatin closed 1 year ago

telatin commented 1 year ago

Working on an old Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) server I realized I had nim 1.2.x installed, so I checked if choosenim was available.

It was (couldn't check the version) so I tried

choosenim update self
...
   Updating choosenim
[##################################################] 100.0% 0kb/s
      Info: Updated choosenim to version 0.8.4

but then invoking choosenim:

$ choosenim
could not load: libcurl.so(|.4)
(compile with -d:nimDebugDlOpen for more information)

(sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev fixed the problem, but I was intrigued by the fact that choosenim was working before the update, so it might be worth a check ...)

dom96 commented 1 year ago

Yeah, choosenim was updated to use libcurl because of an upstream bug: https://github.com/dom96/choosenim/commit/214b62971eb7053ef70e51de0e2908a0668404b7. Surprised you need that package for libcurl.so to exist though. Maybe there is another .so that the curl wrapper doesn't know about?