[AppImage] git does not work due to missing libcurl-gnutls.so.4

[shiftkey]

[AppImage] git does not work due to missing libcurl-gnutls.so.4

[probonopd]

Statically linking Git may be even better a solution.

[TheAssassin]

See desktop/dugite-native#42 (comment).

[shiftkey]

This is related to the embedded Git we ship in Desktop. The discussion about statically linking Git is here desktop/dugite-native#42 but we haven't figured it out yet.

As a workaround mentioned here desktop#1525 (comment), you can symlink libcurl.so.4 to libcurl-gnutls.so.4 which should get it working.

[simoniz0r]

If you're using a build of git from a Debian based distro, you should be able to package libcurl3-gnutls in your AppImage to solve this issue. I've done this for an AppImage that I've made myself, and it has worked on all of the distros I've been able to test it on.

Simply packaging libcurl3-gnutls itself should be enough if your build of git is from a Debian based distro. libcurl3-gnutls is relatively small in size, so this would make for an easy quick fix, IMO.

[shiftkey]

I'm not sure the best fix for this is in the packaging process of Desktop (the mentions in the documentation talk about adding dependencies for the Electron app, which is separate to our version of git that is distributed in the app). I'm going to close this out in favour of the ongoing discussion in desktop/dugite-native#42 - if you have any bright ideas, please sound out over there. Addressing it upstream means all packaging targets for Desktop get the benefit, and we don't need to address it in multiple ways.

If we can figure a way out of that, this will become available with an update to the Git distributed in Desktop.

[probonopd]

cc @TheAssassin

[probonopd]

By the way, the AppImage developers are happy to support, we are on #AppImage on irc.freenode.net.