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pappz · 2026-07-25T12:45:07Z

The 0.75.0 UI is built against GTK 4.14 (Ubuntu 24.04 runner) and Wails v3 calls gdk_monitor_get_scale (GTK 4.14+) unconditionally, but the deb/rpm packages only depended on netbird. On distros shipping an older GTK4 (Ubuntu 22.04, RHEL 9, openSUSE Leap 15.6) the package installed fine and then died at startup with a symbol lookup error (#6890).

Declare the real runtime dependencies so package managers reject the install up front instead:

deb: libgtk-4-1 (>= 4.14) and libwebkitgtk-6.0-4
rpm: rich (boolean) dependencies that accept both the Fedora/RHEL and the SUSE package names, with the 4.14 floor: (gtk4 >= 4.14 or libgtk-4-1 >= 4.14) (webkitgtk6.0 or libwebkitgtk-6_0-4)

Rich deps are supported by dnf and zypper (RPM 4.13+); the pinned goreleaser v2.16.0 -> nfpm v2.46.3 -> rpmpack v0.7.1 chain passes the parenthesized form through verbatim. On RHEL/Alma/Rocky 10 the webkitgtk6.0 package comes from EPEL, which becomes an install prerequisite for the UI.

The wails3 packaging config (client/ui/build/linux/nfpm/nfpm.yaml, local dev packaging only) is kept in sync.

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- Improved Linux package installation compatibility by requiring supported GTK 4.14 and WebKit components.
- Updated Debian and RPM packages to recognize equivalent platform-specific library names.
- Refined Linux package metadata to support installation across a wider range of distributions.

The 0.75.0 UI is built against GTK 4.14 (Ubuntu 24.04 runner) and Wails v3 calls gdk_monitor_get_scale (GTK 4.14+) unconditionally, but the deb/rpm packages only depended on netbird. On distros shipping an older GTK4 (Ubuntu 22.04, RHEL 9, openSUSE Leap 15.6) the package installed fine and then died at startup with a symbol lookup error (#6890). Declare the real runtime dependencies so package managers reject the install up front instead: - deb: libgtk-4-1 (>= 4.14) and libwebkitgtk-6.0-4 - rpm: rich (boolean) dependencies that accept both the Fedora/RHEL and the SUSE package names, with the 4.14 floor: (gtk4 >= 4.14 or libgtk-4-1 >= 4.14) (webkitgtk6.0 or libwebkitgtk-6_0-4) Rich deps are supported by dnf and zypper (RPM 4.13+); the pinned goreleaser v2.16.0 -> nfpm v2.46.3 -> rpmpack v0.7.1 chain passes the parenthesized form through verbatim. On RHEL/Alma/Rocky 10 the webkitgtk6.0 package comes from EPEL, which becomes an install prerequisite for the UI. The wails3 packaging config (client/ui/build/linux/nfpm/nfpm.yaml, local dev packaging only) is kept in sync.

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Linux packaging metadata now specifies NetBird 0.75.0 or later, GTK 4.14 or later, and compatible WebKit GTK dependencies across Debian, RPM, and NFPM configurations.

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Package dependency declarations `.goreleaser_ui.yaml`, `client/ui/build/linux/nfpm/nfpm.yaml`	Debian, RPM, and NFPM dependencies specify NetBird, GTK, and WebKit GTK version requirements and package alternatives.

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[client] Require netbird >= 0.75.0 in the Linux UI packages

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