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jto1218 on May 10, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ub...

I don't know if this is on topic but I switched to Ubuntu 18.04 recently and ran into this fairly annoying bug [1]. Installing curl installs libcurl4, which then uninstalls any applications you have that have a dependency on libcurl3 (which turns out to be Slack, Virtualbox, and some others). They really need to figure out how to allow libcurl4 and libcurl3 to live side-by-side if that's possible.

Responses from ubuntu folks on that bug ticket have just been "Those packages are not official ubuntu packages so we can't do anything"

1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/+bug/1754294

matharmin on May 10, 2018 [–]

For Slack you can use the snap package, which doesn't have that issue.

mcovey on May 11, 2018 | [–]

For some reason I can only run the snap with sudo, and thus any processes it spawns (clicking links or opening a file manager for example) run as root.

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