graphiql-app: Pango-ERROR: Harfbuzz version too old (1.2.7)

Same Issue for me on Ubuntu 20.

@tuanquynh0508 Try the Kong/insomnia.rest project, it works for me, only downside is it doesn’t support websockets/subscriptions.

Hi Dlford, In fact, I switch to use https://altair.sirmuel.design/ It’s very good.

Met the same problem with old app. on new OS FOSSA(Xenial & Bionic not shows). Caused by new pango libary not match old application.

ig: starup in /u/tool/moeditor, run Moeditor shows the error message:

Pango-ERROR Harfbuzz version too old (1.2.7)

check dependancies:

~# ldd Moeditor |grep pango
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0x00007fe81e43c000)
libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x00007fe81e2a2000)
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x00007fe81cce8000)

Get OLD libpan*_VERSION.deb from https://packages.ubuntu.com/

libpango-1.0-0 (1.42.4-7) https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libs/libpango-1.0-0

libpangocairo-1.0-0 (1.42.4-7) https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libpangocairo-1.0-0

libpangoft2-1.0-0 (1.42.4-7) https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libpangoft2-1.0-0

extract those libs to root of Moeditor $PATH, ig:

~# ls libpa* -l
libpango-1.0.so.0 -> libpango-1.0.so.0.4000.14
libpango-1.0.so.0.4000.14
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 -> libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.4000.14
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.4000.14
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 -> libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.4000.14
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.4000.14

make sure the symbo link correct to right APP_ROOT path!!

That’s all, Markdown Editor runs as on Xenial did before.

Here is a workaround / hack, continuing from the steps in my comment above.

Follow this guide https://codereviewvideos.com/blog/how-i-fixed-uglifyjs-unexpected-token-name-dropin/ to install uglifyjs-webpack-plugin (I used version 1.2.4), then update the make-webpack-config.js file accordingly (remove previous UglifyJs plugin and replace with the one from the link).

You also need to add this https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/18139#issuecomment-489137050 to the electron config in main.js.

I also installed babel-preset-es2015 via npm i and then added es2015 to the list of presets in the .babelrc file. (Did not check if this is required)

After that I could do npm run dist and even though there were some errors in the console, it created a GraphiQL 0.7.2.AppImage file in the ./release directory.

Then I moved this file to my preferred location and ran sudo chmod +x "GraphiQL 0.7.2.AppImage" to make it executable. I can now use the app without getting the “Harfbuzz version too old” error.

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Alternatively use this app https://altair.sirmuel.design/ instead.

try to downgrade via terminal instead. if you use pamac to install any pango its really break not only your nemo or nautilus but manjaro too.

I’m getting the same error and I solved when downgraded pango to v1.42

How did you downgrade it?