Version 3.11.0 64-bit fails on Linux Ubuntu

[Paddy Landau]

Until today, FileZilla has been working wonderfully.

I installed version 3.11.0 today, and now FileZilla will not load.

Running from a terminal, the error message reads:

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filezilla: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by filezilla)
filezilla: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found (required by filezilla)

I don't know what this means or how to fix it.

I have listed the file mentioned and I get this result:

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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     19 Jun  4  2014 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.19
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 979056 Apr  5  2014 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.19

What do I need to do to get FileZilla working again?

• Running Linux Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit.
• Downloaded FileZilla directly from the official website.

Thank you.

[botg]

Your Ubuntu version is too old to run the official binaries. The binaries are build for Debian Jessie which was released 2015 April 25.

Either compile FileZilla yourself for your distribution or upgrade to a more recent Linux distribution compatible with Debian Jessie.

[Paddy Landau]

Your Ubuntu version is too old to run the official binaries.

That's terribly sad, considering that 14.04 is an LTS version, supported until April 2019, to be updated at the earliest end of April 2016.

I have downgraded FileZilla to version 13.10.3.

Please let us know if you make a future version compatible with the LTS version.

[boco]

Please note what botg said only concerns the official precompiled binaries. I'm not exactly a Linux guy, but compiling the sources yourself is easier on Linux than Windows.

Lemme take a guess: the repo version is terribly outdated, as usual?

[botg]

LTS: Long time stale ;P

[Paddy Landau]

Please note what botg said only concerns the official precompiled binaries. I'm not exactly a Linux guy, but compiling the sources yourself is easier on Linux than Windows.

I have found out how to compile FileZilla and tried it. Unfortunately, it depends on something called wxWidgets to be installed, and I have no clue how to go about doing that.

It's sad that the LTS is unsupported, as the non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are intended to be testing grounds for the next LTS version.

Lemme take a guess: the repo version is terribly outdated, as usual?

Version 3.7.3, which has some bugs that would cause me problems.

I'll have to stick with 3.10.3, which is also a pain because it keeps telling me about the new version (even though I have turned off automatic checking in Edit > Preferences > Updates > Never).

[boco]

Yeah, on 15.04 (latest) it's only 3.9.0.5 in the repo...

Cannot get the official binaries working in 15.04, my *NIX knowledge is not sufficient. It opens and closes immediately (Illegal Instruction - core dumped).

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[botg]

Oh, that's odd. It looks like it wants to unconditionally use instructions new to the Haswell microarchitecture.

[botg]

Interesting, so libgmp detects CPU features at compile-time by default, unless explicitly configured with --enable-fat. A very odd choice of default behavior.

[boco]

Does that mean you can do something about it?

Note for other Kubuntu users: Dependency libnotify4 was not installed by default. Unless running from a terminal you won't be notified about it (fails silently).

[botg]

I can't do anything about it because I already did everything about it.

Have a look at the latest nightly.

[Paddy Landau]

Another question: Does this mean that in future you will tend not to support LTS versions, only the latest version? Or is this a bit of a one-off?

[botg]

You've got it backwards. The official FileZilla binaries are built for Debian stable.

You need to contact Ubuntu support: Will Ubuntu LTS be kept compatible with Debian stable in the future?

[Paddy Landau]

You've got it backwards. The official FileZilla binaries are built for Debian stable.

You need to contact Ubuntu support: Will Ubuntu LTS be kept compatible with Debian stable in the future?

Oh. Thanks. Colour me sceptical about Ubuntu… Ubuntu has a little too much power, being the most popular flavour, but I don't have the time to learn a new flavour. I'll do my best with FileZilla until it becomes untenable.

[botg]

Colour me sceptical

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