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Posted: **Sun Dec 26, 2021 6:29 am**

Hi there,

I've noticed some previous threads about libcurl, and that the plugin is now compiled against libcurl 4. However, even though I have libcurl 4 installed on my system, the Air Manager plugin fails to initialize; it cannot load the libcurl.so.4 successfully. There is something about the libcurl that ships with steam that doesn't work with the Air Plugin.

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dlerror:/home/coljac/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/pinned_libs_64/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_4' not found (required by /ssd/steam/steamapps/common/X-Plane 11/Resources/plugins/Air Plugin/64/lin.xpl)

I've gathered that between libcurl 4.2 and 4.4 there's a change in the CURL_OPENSSL dependency.
This does work:

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cd /home/coljac/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/pinned_libs_64/
# libcurl.so.4 is symlinked to /home/coljac/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4.2.0
ln -s /home/coljac/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4.2.0 oldlibcurl
rm libcurl.so.4
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4 libcurl.so.4

However, after I make this change, X-Plane crashes every time I quit. There's nothing in Log.txt apart from "--=={This application has crashed!}==--" but I have verified this is the reason. This isn't entirely optimal! Is there a way to rebuild the plugin to avoid this issue? Perhaps against an older version of libcurl4 (i.e. 4.2?).

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04, with these packages installed:

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libcurl4-openssl-dev/focal-updates,focal-security,now 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.7 amd64 
libcurl4/focal-updates,focal-security,now 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.7 amd64

Posted: **Tue Feb 08, 2022 10:28 pm**

Hmm. This must be the reason the plugin is failing to load for me. I found the line in log.txt, followed all the symlinks in steam, but haven't tried replacing the libcurl library yet. Did you find a fix?

Posted: **Sun May 01, 2022 2:47 am**

blue67 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 10:28 pm Hmm. This must be the reason the plugin is failing to load for me. I found the line in log.txt, followed all the symlinks in steam, but haven't tried replacing the libcurl library yet. Did you find a fix?

I haven't - if I want to use this plugin, I get a crash on exit of X-Plane. However, it does work when I'm flying.

Posted: **Sun May 01, 2022 6:20 am**

Libcurl is always bothering us. Ubuntu removed a certain version of libcurl in a certain Ubuntu version, and then brought it back in the next version of Ubuntu. That's at least what I was told. Although that probably does explain the crash.

I will discuss it with our Linux guy later this week.

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