biber libcrypt dependency in Fedora

andrewacashner at gmail.com andrewacashner at gmail.com
Wed May 29 18:21:20 CEST 2019


Hello,

Biber links to the shared library libcrypt.so.1.
Fedora has replaced libcrypt with an alternative
based on libxcrypt to resolve security problems (
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FullyRemoveDeprecatedAndUnsafeFunctionsFromLibcrypt
). 

Users have to install a compatibility package
manually or biber will not run (
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/493231/biber-missing-libcrypt-so-1-library-on-fedora/493232#493232
). 

Can this problem be avoided so users don't have to
mess with shared libraries?

Best,
Andrew Cashner

University of Rochester
Rochester, New York USA



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