[Bug] Dot Purple installation fails on Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

[alastairlundy]

Describe the bug
DotPurple fails to install on Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS.

Initially I didn't see the error details trying to install it via a GUI so I tried installing it using dpkg and that gave me the error details.

It looks like the latest DotPurple deb package expects an older version of libssl that is not installed on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or newer based distributions.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Download latest DotPurple .deb file
2. Open a terminal emulator application
3. Enter the command sudo dkpg -i [PathToDotPurpleDebFile].deb
4. See error

Expected behavior
DotPurple to install successfully.

Screenshots
Side Note: I renamed my copy of the Dot Purple deb package to make it easier to execute the dpkg command with it.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: [e.g. iOS] Pop!_OS
• Version [e.g. 1.0.1] 22.04 LTS with latest updates installed.
• Linux Kernel version is 6.9.3

Additional context
libssl3 seems to be the libssl package that ships in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS based distros and newer.

Hope this helps. Thanks :)

[Deadpikle]

Thanks for the report. Looks like this is a common issue for .NET apps on Linux...hrm.

Can't take a look at this exact moment of this comment, but dotnet/core#4749 may have a workaround for you that could work. Looks like there are compat packages available for several distros that would allow things to run again.

[alastairlundy]

Thanks for the report. Looks like this is a common issue for .NET apps on Linux...hrm.

Can't take a look at this exact moment of this comment, but dotnet/core#4749 may have a workaround for you that could work. Looks like there are compat packages available for several distros that would allow things to run again.

Hi,
Thanks for your suggestion. I'm a bit hesistant to install an older libssl version at the moment due to it not being up to date with fixes.

I'm going to try to reproduce the issue in a virtual machine running a fresh install of Ubuntu or Pop!_Os with the .NET SDK installed and try to investigate the issue further.

In the mean time can I keep this issue open?

Thanks

[alastairlundy]

So, I did some experimenting and I was able to get DotPurple 1.12.2 working but I had to extract the deb file and run the DotPurple executable manually.

@Deadpikle I think the issue is with the packaging of the .deb file and not with the application itself.

I did notice something unrelated that looks like a separate bug: Installing a workload through DotPurple would show as having been successfully installed but it wouldn't actually install the workload and refreshing the manage workloads page would show the workload as available to install.

Running dotnet workload list also didn't show the workload as having been installed.