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VictronConnect v6.07 - AppImage Linux Dependency Regression (Bug)

In my previous release v5.100 libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (a mit-krb5 dependency) was statically included into the appimage

in version v6.07 you are attempting to link to the shared library system version, (which doesn't exist in all distributions)


In the future please either:

1. Properly document linux shared library dependencies (I could not find them anywhere)

2. Statically link all AppImage dependencies (this is preferred and kind of the entire point of AppImages)


It took me an some amount of time to find the undocumented logging output to /tmp/VictronConnect.log. As your appImage ignores all command line arguments (--help would be nice)


Thanks!!


I haven no idea where you are supposed to file bug reports so I'm putting this here in Q&A

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onigino answered · 
ldd squashfs-root/lib/libQt6* |grep gss
libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00007fceef13a000)
libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00007f387359e000)


I'd say the root cause is the version jump to Qt6

you need to disable gssapi at built time to fix this, or just include mit-krb5 in your appimage. Though honestly its extremely unlikely your using krb5

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Thiemo van Engelen (Victron Energy staff) answered ·

Hi @onigino

Thank you for this information. We will try to improve this in future versions.

Kind regards,

Thiemo van Engelen

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