Helix 25.01 won't run on Debian LTS 12 Bookworn, due to GLIBC limited to v2.36.

[webdev23]

Summary

The current Debian 12 LTS 'Bookworm' version can't run the last 25.01 update of Helix.

Reproduction Steps

The current Debian 12 LTS 'Bookworm' version can't run the last 25.01 update of Helix.

Debian and the whole Ubuntu family use GLIBC_2.36, on their Long Term Support releases (LTS).

All versions of GLIBC post 2.36 are breaking numerous packages on the machine, and upgrading is not-advisable. These versions are also known to have potential safety issues.

It should be possible to upgrade a machine to non-stable development version of Debian 13 (Trixie), that use GLIB_2.40, but the official release is projected to be in 2025. This require a kernel upgrade, and is not advisable for a server.

I tried this:

hx

hx: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by hx)

hx: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.39' not found (required by hx)

I expected this to happen:

Run Helix

Instead, this happened:

Crash

Helix log

No response

Platform

LInux

Terminal Emulator

xfce4

Installation Method

release binary

Helix Version

25.02

[practicalrs]

I just compiled it and it works here.

hx --version
helix 25.1 (dabfb6ce

cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 12 \n \l

Maybe it's some local configuration problem?

(I'm working on updating my article https://practicalrs.com/articles/elevate-your-cli-experience-helix/ - so I basically just only changed "git checkout 25.01" and it works)

[the-mikedavis]

Duplicate of #12411

[webdev23]

Right, by compiling from sources, by installing cargo and all the rust toolchain, it does compile and run.

The issue is within the binary release: helix-25.01-x86_64-linux, that one cannot run on Debian 12.