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Anony_Moose_356
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusF5 VPN Broken on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Heads up, the Ubuntu package for the F5 VPN is broken under the upcoming Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
The dependencies are clearly wrong since there has been an ABI change between Qt5.5 (as advertised) and...
NickTurner
Altostratus
AltostratusI've just stumbled upon this issue after a user reported Ubuntu 18.04 (officially released today) wasn't working.
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/related/relnote-supplement-bigip-13-0-1.htmlA710407-1 identifies that QT 5.10.1 has issues and the "workaround" is to "Install Qt version 5.9.0 or lower, and make it the default installation."
I've not looked on an Ubuntu installation itself but Google suggests Ubuntu 18.04 runs QT 5.9.1 (maybe 5.9.5) so it's a case of nearly but not quite :(
miostreams_1604Nimbostratus
NimbostratusUbuntu 18.04 uses QT 5.9.5, however after running into this problem, I downgraded to QT 5.9.1 using the Ubuntu 17.10 repos and the problem is resolved. Not the best solution, but there is indeed something going on with QT.