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probonopd / linuxdeployqt

Makes Linux applications self-contained by copying in the libraries and plugins that the application uses, and optionally generates an AppImage. Can be used for Qt and other applications
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It doesn't work on arch-based distros #543

Closed mede-erik closed 2 years ago

mede-erik commented 2 years ago

The program always gets the same error both installed by the AUR and compiled: Aur: linuxdeployqt 8 (commit d41e234), build <local dev build> built on 2022-08-03 16:15:17 UTC ERROR: The host system is too new. Please run on a system with a glibc version no newer than what comes with the oldest currently still-supported mainstream distribution (xenial), which is glibc 2.23. This is so that the resulting bundle will work on most still-supported Linux distributions. For more information, please see https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt/issues/340 The glibc package is installed.

probonopd commented 2 years ago

Looks like it works as intended. What makes you think otherwise?

mede-erik commented 2 years ago

because when I run linuxdeployqt terminal/terminal this command just prints me the text above without working

probonopd commented 2 years ago

The text explains that your host system is too new, and that you need to run it on an older system. It works as intended: It prevents you from making AppDirs or AppImages on this "too new " system, because the resuting AppDirs or AppImages would not be able to run on all still-supported versions of mainstream distributions.

Please run linuxdeployqt on, e.g, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) or older. And please use the version from https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt/releases/tag/continuous and not the outdated version linuxdeployqt 8 (commit d41e234).

Arch is not suitable for making AppDirs or AppImages using linuxdeployqt because as a "rolling release" distribution it always contains libraries that are newer than what most non-Arch users have; hence the recommendation to use, e.g, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) or older.

mede-erik commented 2 years ago

thank you very much for the advice, i will try to use it on ubuntu 18.04