[MCL-10588] Launcher .deb dependency conflict

When installing minecraft.deb, dpkg asks me to remove the following programs from my computer:

cmake
virtualbox
steam

A likely reason is that minecraft launcher depends on libcurl3 while the latest cmake requires libcurl4

Comments 3

petr.mrazek 2019-03-04T12:09:07Z

I am unable to replicate this issue on fully updated Ubuntu 18.04. The launcher deb package depends on either libcurl3 or libcurl4 – it does not care which, or what kind of SSL library it is linked with, because the library is loaded at runtime. I have verified that the package manager is perfectly fine with swapping between libcurl3 and libcurl4 while the launcher is installed, and that the launcher starts in both cases.

Did your cmake, virtualbox and steam packages come from the distribution repositories, or have you installed them from some external source?

Do you use the official package for the launcher (https://launcher.mojang.com/download/Minecraft.deb)?

Ruiming Xiong 2019-03-16T01:40:11Z

I think it's safe to close this issue. I believe that the actual problem is with the graphical package installer I used. I was able to reinstall cmake (and in the process reupdate libcurl to v4) without uninstalling minecraft launcher.

petr.mrazek 2019-06-17T07:11:59Z

Confirmed by user as an external issue with the tools used for installation.