FileZilla problem after a libfilezilla update

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Recently I have received an automatic update to libfilezilla-0.5.0_6.1 (from openSUSE Leap 42.1 - Network repository); now FileZilla Client 3.16.1 displays an empty folder when I try to connect to certain FTP servers (while gFTP works perfectly).
I have written to the FileZilla developers and they have told me that I need to update FileZilla too (to version 3.17).
Currently, in the openSUSE Leap 42.1 repositories, the latest version of FileZilla is 3.16.1-81.1; FileZilla 3.17 is available in Factory or Tumbleweed, but it requires a lot of new libraries (libc, libdbus, etc).
So, now I am looking for the previous version of libfilezilla, but I can’t find it; it is no longer available in the Leap 42.1 repositories.
I have found an old version (0.4.0.1) in an unofficial repository and now FileZilla is working again, but I think it is very dangerous to install packages from unofficial repositories.
So, is there any way to obtain the previous version of libfilezilla from the Leap 42.1 Network repository?

Thanks.

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Install both from here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ecsos/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/x86_64/

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Thank you so much Sauerland; it works!

Strangely, in the openSUSE Build Service, filezilla 3.17 build (for Leap 42.1) fails because “nothing provides libnettle >= 3.1” (it is a cryptographic library).
The ecsos repositoy, instead, provides libnettle 6.x.

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Hello,

nice to hear that my package run. :slight_smile:

so i make an request for libnettle to network repo.

Regards
Eric

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Fun fact, at least until now, this is not really necessary.

Setting


BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(nettle) >= 3.1

makes sense at first glance, as it is set in the configure script, most likely the developer set this according to his build enviroment.

However, setting


BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(nettle) >= 2.7

and adding this little hack to the %prep section


## hack: libnettle 2.7 seems to be good enough
sed -i 's|nettle 3.1|nettle 2.7|g;s|nettle >= 3.1|nettle >= 2.7|g' configure.ac configure

still works. This might change in the future but until now (3.17.0.1) nettle 2.7 is recent enough for running a successful build.

AK

P.S. When updating filezilla to 3.17.0.1 you will need the patch “filezilla-wxstring.patch” (at least if your build links dynamically against wxWidgets) which can be found here:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/filezilla.git/tree/

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FileZilla Client 3.17 and libnettle 6.x have arrived in the Network repo (Leap 42.1).

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Okay. Thanks.