GLIBC version

[williamlidberg]

I have been using Whitebox in an Nvidia ubuntu 20.04 docker container for a while but today I got this error:

./whitebox_tools: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version GLIBC_2.35' not found (required by ./whitebox_tools) ./whitebox_tools: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by ./whitebox_tools)
./whitebox_tools: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.32' not found (required by ./whitebox_tools) ./whitebox_tools: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by ./whitebox_tools)

my GLIBC version is 2.31 and I can't seem to upgrade it without upgrading to ubuntu 22.xx
What is the most recent version of whitebox that was built with GLIBC 2.3.1?

Does anything GLIBC related happen when whitebox is downloading the pre-compiled binaries for first-time use? I am thinking of this text that pops up when importing Whitebox:

  Downloading WhiteboxTools pre-compiled binary for first-time use ...
  Decompressing WhiteboxTools_linux_amd64.zip ...
  WhiteboxTools package directory: /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/whitebox
  Downloading testdata ...

[giswqs]

Related to opengeos/whitebox-python#55

[giswqs]

I think the issue is probably because the latest WBT binary for Linux is compiled on Ubuntu 22.x. We need it be compiled on Ubuntu 20.x so that it can be compatible with older Ubuntu OS.

[williamlidberg]

I tinkered a bit with downloading the adding our version of the backend but I agree that we need a solution for older versions of Ubuntu. I am depending on Nvidia's containers for TensorFlow and they are still using Ubuntu 20.04 with GLIBC 2.3.1.

[giswqs]

This issue has been fixed with the latest whitebox pip package.

If you encounter any GLIBC errors after installing the whitebox package, you can try the following command:

import whitebox
whitebox.download_wbt(linux_musl=True, reset=True)

Alternatively, you can set the environment variable WBT_LINUX to MUSL before installing the whitebox package. It will automatically download the MUSL version of WhiteboxTools. This is a better solution if you are using docker.

import os
os.environ["WBT_LINUX"] = "MUSL"