Appimage not launching in ubuntu 24.04

#1

Hi,

I’ve just installed the official appimage of texmacs for a frecnh accent problem.

The appimage doesn’t launch on ubuntu 24.04. The error message is the following

texmacs.bin: symbol lookup error: /tmp/.mount_TeXmacOmJWPH/usr/bin/…/lib/libcrypt.so.1: undefined symbol: __snprintf, version GLIBC_PRIVATE

Marc

#2

It is the same problem reported in bug #65592. There is an incompatibility between the libcrypt bundled with the AppImage and the one on your distro (or so I understood). You can force the executable to use the system one with the environment variable LD_PRELOAD="/lib64/libcrypt.so.1".

#3

On Kubuntu 24.04.1 LTS x86_64 (Kernel: 6.8.0-51-generic),
the command to launch TeXmacs is (on the same line) :
$ LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1" TeXmacs-2.1.4.x86_64.AppImage
Nicolas

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#4

Hey, I’m a little late to this thread.

I made a video a while ago that shows how to setup texmacs under ubuntu/debian with the appimage. You can safely ignore everything after minute 4:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHSda43eWck

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