(in programming for initial visibility - all discussion should be in beta) Change in linux JE binaries:
Before J903-beta-i, Jsoftware built linux JE on Mint 18. Now we build linux JE on Mint 20.1. Unfortunately these new binaries will not run on older linux systems as they require libm.so.6: version GLIBC_2.29. If you install J903-beta-i or later and J fails to start you can check in terminal for this problem with: user@host: ldd j903/bin/libj.so ... libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found ... This is caused by moving from Mint 18 to Mint 20.1. We had to make this move at some point and now seemed to make more sense than delaying. Mint 18 Sarah (Ubuntu 16.04) was released in September 2016 and support for it ended in April 2021. Mint 20.1 Ulyssa (Ubuntu 20.04) was the stable release in January 2021 and has LTS (long term support) until 2025. We don't know how many users will be inconvenienced by this or how much trouble it will cause. Most users are probably already on more recent linux distributions and won't have a problem. For some the easiest fix is to upgrade to a newer linux version. Or checkout J source from the repo and build JE for your system. A workaround with LD_PRELOAD was presented in the beta forum and is a reasonable solution in some cases. However, it is recommended against in official linux news as it mixes things that have not been officially tested. Inform us in the beta forum if you are completely stuck by this change. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
