[Users] Claws installation from a backup

[Peter Richards]

On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 07:50:01 +0100
Ralf Mardorf via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:27:33 +1100, Peter Richards wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 16.04 is the last Ubuntu release providing claws-mail-fancy-plugin,
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/claws-mail-fancy-plugin .
> 
> The last Ubuntu release providing libwebkitgtk is 18.04
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 .
> 
> The repositories for 19.10 neither provide claws-mail-fancy-plugin,
> nor the libwebkitgtk dependency. The reason is, that webkitgtk was
> discontinued by upstream and that it suffers from critical security
> flaws.
> 
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:03:26 +1100, Peter Richards wrote:
> >That particular .so file could be on the backup. If it is, can I
> >safely use an older version as there doesn't seem to be one for
> >Ubuntu 19.10 ?  
> 
> No you can't use it, since the dependency tree is completely broken.
> For example libwebkitgtk isn't available at all, but even if it would
> be available, libwebkitgtk from the 16.04 repositories is e.g.
> compiled against libgcc1 6.0.1, but the repositories for 19.10
> provide libgcc1 9.2.1. As a point of reference for possible
> backwards-compatibility see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soname .

Okay thanks very much for your reply. I definitely won't use it then.
Have installed the claws-mail-litehtml-viewer plugin.

Cheers,

Peter

> Regards,
> Ralf
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