qBittorrent on ubuntu 24.04.1 will not update to 5.0.1

[fckwan]

https://launchpad.net/~qbittorrent-team ... ent-stable

qbittorrent 1:5.0.1.99~202410282300-8422-94136262a~ubuntu24.10.1 qBittorrent Team (2024-10-28)
qbittorrent 1:4.6.7.99~202409181207-8154-a869e4151~ubuntu24.04.1 qBittorrent Team (2024-09-18)
qbittorrent 1:4.6.5.99~202405261803-8143-5e8134793~ubuntu23.10.1 qBittorrent Team (2024-05-26)
qbittorrent 1:4.6.3.99~202401170003-8129-cfa7a6db4~ubuntu23.04.1 qBittorrent Team (2024-01-17)
qbittorrent 1:4.5.5.99~202308312232-7899-7d7097b02~ubuntu22.04.1 qBittorrent Team (2023-08-31)

In the PPAs the ubuntu 24.04.1 is still using qbittorrent 4.6.7 instead of 5.0.1

Does anyone know will 5.0.1 be released to ubuntu 24.04.1 or other older ubuntu versions.

[leonarderickson]

+1 thanks

[stallionczt]

I would also like to know, do any of the developers look at this forum?

[Peter]

They do but the Flatpak is the official fresh version so to speak.
If anyone wants, they are free to create a new PPA with the new version. But when I tried to do this for an older version, all sorts of things broke on Ubuntu because of the cross-dependencies. So it's not easy, and at times it is completely impossible, due to the libraries being too old on it.

[fckwan]

I would like to suggest qBittorrent should try to support the latest LTS (24.04.1) version.

Last time I upgrade my Ubuntu to non LTS version it has too many issues and I need to re-install my machine.

[Peter]

Correction, I meant AppImage.

Reply: Yeah but it's not that easy.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble/qbittorrent

If you go on this link, the official repo, you can see tons of packages listed at the "Packages related to qBittorrent". Unfortunately shared libraries on Linux are good AND bad. I'll just copy paste GPT reply because I'd have missed out something:

Pros of Shared Libraries on Linux:

Reduced Disk Usage: Multiple programs can share a single library, saving disk space.
Simplified Updates: Updating a shared library automatically benefits all programs using it, enhancing security and reducing maintenance.
Memory Efficiency: Shared libraries are loaded once into memory, allowing multiple programs to access them simultaneously, saving RAM.

Cons of Shared Libraries on Linux:

Dependency Hell: Different programs may require incompatible versions of the same library, leading to conflicts.
Compatibility Issues: Programs may break if a library update introduces changes incompatible with existing binaries.
Distribution-Specific Variability: Library versions and structures vary across Linux distributions, complicating portability.

So why not make static linux distribution(s)?!
They have tried to make static distributions happen in the past but none of them are mainstream unfortunately.
See:
https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis
https://sta.li/

That's why they came up with Flatpak and Snap, AppImage. So users can have the regular system and just run the latest software via Flatpak/Snap/AppImage. Another option is to run a rolling OS like openSUSE Tumbleweed, Manjaro Linux, Arch Linux, etc. I had great experience with Manjaro for example, it just worked, no breaks, no problems whatsoever. And Tumbleweed has great btrfs snapshot support, meaning you can just roll back if an update breaks things and you can just wait until it's fixed.

Anyway, it's your choice, I am just sharing the "problems of Linux". This "problem" mostly affects regular desktop use, like a Windows/OSX users desktop applications. Why is it not an issue over there? The programs you install on Windows are statically linked. On OSX they use bundles where the dependencies are bundled with the program (Pidgin on Windows did this).

[fckwan]

I understand there are different ways to install a package on Ubuntu.

Let's focus on installation of qBittorrent using PPA method for this topic.

I would like to suggest qBittorrent should try to support the latest LTS (24.04.1) version, if possible.

If that is not achievable. I believe user can either stay with whatever version supported by the PPA in their current Ubuntu version. Or update their Ubuntu to the latest LTS or non LTS version.

[colemarc]

Correction, I meant AppImage.

Is there an Appimage for qbittorrent-nox v5.0.1 on AMD64?
I have a headless Ubuntu 22.04 (not updating for the time being) and the PPA packages are stuck at v4.5.5. In order to update qbittorrent-nox I considered the official Appimage, but from what I can grok it is meant for GUI environments.

In the meantime I downloaded the static version from here, then replaced the old (dynamic) executable with the new one: it works seamlessly.
https://github.com/userdocs/qbittorrent-nox-static

[fckwan]

https://github.com/qbittorrent/docker-q ... -nox#usage

Is the above link help?

In the page it said. "If you don't need the GUI, you can just install Docker Engine:"

[shensbg]

Correction, I meant AppImage.

Is there an Appimage for qbittorrent-nox v5.0.1 on AMD64?
I have a headless Ubuntu 22.04 (not updating for the time being) and the PPA packages are stuck at v4.5.5. In order to update qbittorrent-nox I considered the official Appimage, but from what I can grok it is meant for GUI environments.

In the meantime I downloaded the static version from here, then replaced the old (dynamic) executable with the new one: it works seamlessly.
https://github.com/userdocs/qbittorrent-nox-static

I wanted to thank you for this.

I replaced the old executable with the new one, like you said, and it worked flawlessly on my headless Ubuntu 22.04.05.