Missing dependencies in rpm package

[Tyriar]

#13089 but for .rpm

Notes:

• Chromium deps: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/chrome/installer/linux/rpm/expected_deps_i386?dr=C&q=libxss.so.1&sq=package:chromium
• ldd /usr/share/code-insiders/code-insiders can fetch a list of deps

[Tyriar]

To verifier: Please verify installation works fine on both a 32-bit and 64-bit CentOS (I tested using Fedora when implementing).

[chrmarti]

@Tyriar Seeing this on CentOS 8.6 64-bit live CD:

[chrmarti]

[chrmarti]

Consistently so for the 32-bit version:

CentOS 8.6 32-bit live CD:

[chrmarti]

CentOS 7 build 1611 64-bit live DVD installs the package, but the crashes on startup of VSCode. --verbose shows:

And:

Changing the permissions as asked for fixed the problem. Not sure if there is a way to avoid that, but other applications don't seem to require that change in permissions.

[mMerlin]

Amend that only libX11-xcb. That was enough to get vscode to run, but further usage encountered errors about no icu package on the system. Installing libicu seems to have cleared that up.

[joaomoreno]

@Tyriar @deepak1556 Can we close this?

[deepak1556]

I haven't looked into this recently but I think we should be good on this. Something I like to eventually setup is a way to update the dependency during runtime version updates.

[Tyriar]

This never got fixed and is still a problem afaik. Certain distros don't include some base deps and VS Code will install successfully but not launch without manually installing the deps it complains about.

[deepak1556]

@Tyriar is it only libX11-xcb mentioned in #17142 (comment) ? Do we need to validate the dependency list for the current runtime version ?

[Tyriar]

@deepak1556 I don't know how you get the dependency list for a binary but we need to do that and update it, I think there's some commands to do this. I think there's more than just libX11-xcb.

[mMerlin]

In my case (2 years ago), libX11-xcb plus libicu were enough.