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Switched Ubuntu/Debian dependency "fuse" to "fuse3" to avoid breaking Systems #3702

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Description of the Pull Request (PR):

I noticed an issue where installing the dependencies for singularity, specifically fuse causes issues with Ubuntu systems. After looking at the fuse installation guide, I found that the fuse developers explicitly warn against installing fuse on certain Ubuntu systems as it can break the system: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/FUSE. Instead, installing fuse3 works as a replacement for the dependency and does not present any issues.

This fixes or addresses the following GitHub issues:

Rowan Kelleher added 2 commits June 17, 2025 09:27
…ssues where fuse breaks fuse3 and other parts of Ubuntu systems
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This also needs to be addressed in the .deb packaging, as that is depending on fuse.

libfuse-dev,

…n packaging: fuse -> fuse3; libfuse-dev -> libfuse3-dev. Replaced libfuse-dev -> libfuse3-dev in INSTALL.md
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Just changed fuse to fuse3 in ./debian/control and changed libfuse-dev to libfuse3-dev in both ./debian/control and INSTALL.md

@dtrudg dtrudg merged commit 0b9dfb0 into sylabs:main Jun 18, 2025
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Installing dependency "fuse" can break Ubuntu systems and remove functionality by removing fuse3
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