FileZilla Client 3.2.4 no longer works on CentOS 5.3
Posted: 2009-04-22 15:06
I've been unpacking the Linux binary .tar.bz2 package of several of the 3.X releases of
FileZilla Client and they've been working fine on CentOS 5 (we're on CentOS 5.3 at
the moment). However, the new release of FileZilla Client, 3.2.4, sadly no longer runs on
CentOS 5.
The filezilla binary for 3.2.4 seems to have been built with much later versions of various
shared libraries - well beyond what's available on CentOS 5 (or, indeed, the RHEL 5 distro that CentOS 5 is based on). Examples include:
* libstdc++.so.6 now requires GLIBCXX_3.4.9 versioning, which isn't present in CentOS 5.
* libgnutls.so.26 is needed, but CentOS 5 only has libgnutls.so.13.
Even trying to copy Fedora Rawhide versions of those libraries and setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
include them triggered issues with libc.so.6 (versioning) and a missing libtasn1.so.3 library. Adding those from Rawhide just resulted in a futex() call hanging, at which point I gave up
Any chance of building the FileZilla Client with the older libraries like you did with 3.2.3.1 and
earlier? It's a shame that FileZilla Client now no longer works for the most popular commercial Linux (RHEL 5).
FileZilla Client and they've been working fine on CentOS 5 (we're on CentOS 5.3 at
the moment). However, the new release of FileZilla Client, 3.2.4, sadly no longer runs on
CentOS 5.
The filezilla binary for 3.2.4 seems to have been built with much later versions of various
shared libraries - well beyond what's available on CentOS 5 (or, indeed, the RHEL 5 distro that CentOS 5 is based on). Examples include:
* libstdc++.so.6 now requires GLIBCXX_3.4.9 versioning, which isn't present in CentOS 5.
* libgnutls.so.26 is needed, but CentOS 5 only has libgnutls.so.13.
Even trying to copy Fedora Rawhide versions of those libraries and setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
include them triggered issues with libc.so.6 (versioning) and a missing libtasn1.so.3 library. Adding those from Rawhide just resulted in a futex() call hanging, at which point I gave up
Any chance of building the FileZilla Client with the older libraries like you did with 3.2.3.1 and
earlier? It's a shame that FileZilla Client now no longer works for the most popular commercial Linux (RHEL 5).