nRF Connect for VS Code - Manage SDKs fails on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

[John Connett]

Toolchain v2.6.1 installed. Attempt to Manage SDKs fails.

[13:12:52] nRF Command Line Tools 10.24.2 are up to date
Command failed: git ls-remote --tags --heads github.com/.../sdk-nrf
/home/jrc/ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-remote-https: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Problem may be a library version mismatch:

$ strings ncs/toolchains/2be090971e/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpsl.so.5.3.2 | grep unistring
libunistring.so.2
$ strings /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpsl.so.5.3.4 | grep unistring
libunistring.so.5
$

[John Connett]

This failure was with code installed with apt from the packages.microsoft.com repository. A similar error occurs when code is install using snap (with --classic).

[Sigurd Hellesvik]

Hi,

Which method are you using to install the toolchain?

Regards,
Sigurd Hellesvik

[Schmid]

I have the same Problem on the same OS. It shows using the Toolchain Manager and also using the VS-Code Extension.

[Sigurd Hellesvik]

Our automatic install tools do not yet support Ubuntu 24.04.

I suggest that you use our system-wide installation instead.

EDIT: Before you go to the system wide install, maybe installing https://packages.ubuntu.com/mantic/libunistring2 would fix our install?

apt install libunistring2

[John Connett]

Manually installing the mantic library using:

sudo dpkg -i ./libunistring2_1.0-2_amd64.deb

seems to be a work around.