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What issue or error are you experiencing?

No appimage release and old libncurses5 dependency.

What steps can be taken to replicate the issue? Feel free to include screenshots, videos, etc

Just try to install in arch Linux without use unofficial and old aur packages.

System Details

  • Local Version:

  • Latest

  • Operating System (OS) and OS version:

  • Arch linux

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Just cannot run cause missed dependency.

I think can be simple for dev to migrate to libncurses6 or just make an app image (can be run with all distro).

Atm local and Linux cannot work fine together.

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Hey @SalvatoreN! Thank you for your patience and feedback for us around this topic. Our team is working on adjusting dependencies for Linux and we hope to have some updates to share around this soon but don’t have a firm ETA to provide. We’ll be sure to share any news around the forums here when we have something ready.

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Ty. Hope will be released asap. Atm i can try with virt-manager and a simple Debian to make a local web server.

In this day I download rpm, extract, make a script to just install/uninstall (also with libncurses.so.5 and libtinfo.so.5).

Now run as expected but for unknow reason i’ve issue with hosts file (anyway, work fine in localhost mode).

Any advice (is arch Linux)?
Also, can I share this customized packages (is a run file, teorically can work with all distro).

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Host file editing in Local depends on vscode/sudo-prompt, which requires pkexec or kdesudo to be installed and configured on Linux in case your system is missing those.

The main source for releases continues to be https://localwp.com/releases rather than customized packages on this forum or elsewhere.

We’re currently testing a build that bundles dependencies with MySQL/Local on Linux so that extra install or packaging steps should not be needed. We’ll publish a beta when this is available for wider testing.

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Thanks for reply.
Indeed, if libncurses.so.5 e libtinfo.so.5 are satisfied, a simple package (run or appimage) can be ok for about all distros.

About hosts, I found some useful info in aur Page:

And also here is confirmed: .local TLD is not resolved when in hosts file if used on Arch based Linux

Seems to be sufficient to change domain .local in .dev (or test).

I try asap.

tried just now, dev, test, tb, nothing work. file hosts is updated correctly, but i can use only in localhost mode here (all work ok with debian).

this is a screenshot

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Finally, fixed thanks to a missed dependency:

sudo pacman -Syu libxcrypt-compat

now all work (but in browser remain not trusted website cause selfsigned cert, but isn’t a problem).