Can't run the program on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

[ABADY1000]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues.

What's the problem?

I can't run sniffnet on my machine, it complains of GLIBC version!

I installed it by downloading Debian package amd64 and install it using dpkg

sudo dpkg -i ./Sniffnet_linuxDEB_amd64.deb

When it didn't run I tried to install the dependecies mentioned in here

$ sudo apt-get install libpcap-dev libasound2-dev libfontconfig1-dev libgtk-3-dev

and it was installed successfully

When ever I try to run it this is what happen

 $ sudo sniffnet 
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by sniffnet)
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by sniffnet)
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by sniffnet)
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by sniffnet)
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by sniffnet)

My system details:

 $ uname -a
Linux ambat-PC 5.11.5 #1 SMP Sun Apr 4 12:39:37 +03 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS
Release:	16.04
Codename:	xenial

And I don't know exactly how to check GLIBC version, but here is something I tried:

 $ ls -al /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc* | awk '{print $9}' 
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2.24
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcgmanager.so.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcgmanager.so.0.0.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcidn-2.23.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcidn.so.1
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcom_err.so.2
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcom_err.so.2.1
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt-2.23.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcryptsetup.so.4
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcryptsetup.so.4.6.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6

Sounds my GLIBC version is old, how could I upgrade it safely? or is the problem somewhere else?

How did you install the app?

downloaded one of the provided packages

Operating System

Linux

Additional context

No response

[GyulyVGC]

Hi @ABADY1000

$ sudo sniffnet
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by sniffnet) sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by sniffnet)
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by sniffnet) sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by sniffnet)
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by sniffnet)

Is the output the same if you run without sudo?
Could you please also try sudo -E sniffnet?

[GyulyVGC]

If the error persists try updating the package with:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6

[ABADY1000]

Hi @ABADY1000

$ sudo sniffnet
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by sniffnet) sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by sniffnet)
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by sniffnet) sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by sniffnet)
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by sniffnet)

Is the output the same if you run without sudo? Could you please also try sudo -E sniffnet?

Hello @GyulyVGC , thank you for your reply

Yes it is the same output:

$ sniffnet
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by sniffnet)
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by sniffnet)
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by sniffnet)
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by sniffnet)
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by sniffnet)

And the other command also generated the same error

$ sudo -E sniffnet
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by sniffnet)
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by sniffnet)
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by sniffnet)
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by sniffnet)
sniffnet: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by sniffnet)

[ABADY1000]

If the error persists try updating the package with:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6

Here is the output from the second command after updating the packages

$ sudo apt-get install libc6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libc6 is already the newest version (2.23-0ubuntu11.3).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gcc-5-base:i386 pandoc-data
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.

[ABADY1000]

It sounds like Ubuntu 16.04 is not supported, I run it on my another machine with Ubuntu 20.04 and it work directly

[GyulyVGC]

I'm happy you solved it somehow, even if the problem is still there... I imagine it's some dependency that's outdated and cannot be updated on older Ubuntu versions