v6.1.0 does not run on Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (focal) due to missing glibc required versions

[techfg]

What is the current bug behavior?

After installing v6.1.0 on Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (focal), when running hurl, it fails to run with the following error:

hurl: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.32' not found (required by hurl)
hurl: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by hurl)
hurl: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by hurl)

Hurl Version 6.00 (directly via install or via npm of 6.0.1) did not have this issue.

Steps to reproduce

This can be reproduced in either of the ways below:

1. following the install scripts in the docs:

VERSION=6.1.0
curl --location --remote-name https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/releases/download/$VERSION/hurl_${VERSION}_amd64.deb
sudo apt update && sudo apt install ./hurl_${VERSION}_amd64.deb
hurl

2. Adding @orangeopensource/[email protected] to an npm project:

npm i -D @orangeopensource/[email protected]
npx hurl

What is the expected correct behavior?

hurl should display usage when executed

Execution context

Hurl version: 6.1.0

$> lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

Possible fixes

1. Update to newer Ubuntu (not really an option)
2. Build from source or add glibc as required on individual machine, however this doesn't scale as a solution for other team members running 20.04.6 and would complicate CI processes as well.

[lepapareil]

Hi @techfg, thks for this issue.

We have to clarify the install doc for generic/deb packages, adding minimum version for Ubuntu and Debian.

As a workaround, you can also achieve this using the ppa way for Hurl 6.0.0 :

VERSION=6.0.0
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:lepapareil/hurl
sudo apt install hurl="${VERSION}"*

(6.1.1 will be available within a few days)

[techfg]

Thanks for the quick reply @lepapareil!

Hi @techfg, thks for this issue.

We have to clarify the install doc for generic/deb packages, adding minimum version for Ubuntu and Debian.

Yeah, having this mentioned in the docs would be great, thank you! Since everything worked on 20.04.6 with 6.0.0, definitely was not expecting it to not work on 6.1.0 since it was just a minor version bump :)

As a workaround, you can also achieve this using the ppa way for Hurl 6.0.0 :

VERSION=6.0.0
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:lepapareil/hurl
sudo apt install hurl="${VERSION}"*

(6.1.1 will be available within a few days)

Assuming you meant 6.1.0 here, correct? Unfortunately, this workaround doesn't work in our use case because we npm install hurl but I did try this with 6.1.0 anyway to see if it would work but unfortunately got the following error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Version '6.1.0*' for 'hurl' was not found

[lepapareil]

Assuming you meant 6.1.0 here, correct?

No, I really meant 6.0.0 😉.

I did not push 6.1.0 to ppa yet, because we discovered some bugs.
The new fixed version 6.1.1 will be available within a few days inclunding on ppa:lepapareil/hurl.

[techfg]

Gotcha, thanks! Ok, I'll test the PPA method on 6.1.1 when it's available just to confirm behavior on 20.04.6.

[lepapareil]

Hi @techfg !

PPA is up-to-date with Hurl 6.1.1 for Bionic / Focal / jammy / noble 😄.

[techfg]

@lepapareil - Just confirmed, all looks good and thank you for updating the docs via 39ca804.