Hello,
On 22/09/2025 18:58, Van Snyder wrote:
Waterloo Maple Software technical support said their license manager
(and most
other licensed programs' managers) will not work without lsb-base being
installed. They recommended installing it.
The "lsb-base" command doesn't exist in Debian, and hasn't for years
now, as LSB itself is obsolete - bullseye (old-old-stable), for example,
didn't have such a command. AFAICT Ubuntu has likewise not had this
command since about 2015.
They also recommended
ln -s /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3
Definitely don't do that - if a library needs a different soname of that
library, trying to fake that with a symlink will just result in crashes
and confusing bugs.
I think Maple's install instructions are under-tested - I see they
say[0] to install lsb-core and lsb-base on Ubuntu 24.04, but lsb-core
doesn't exist in 24.04 (it was last shipped in 22.04).
In short, this is a problem with Maple, I'm afraid, not Debian (nor
Ubuntu); I propose to close this bug report unless you think I've missed
something important?
Regards,
Matthew
[0]
https://www.maplesoft.com/support/install/2025/Maple/Install.html#MapleInstallGuide_SysReq
