CURL_OPENSSL_3 on heroku/stack18

[ryanto]

Hi there!

I've tried installing this build pack on heroku stack18 (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-18-stack) and receive the following error when running mediainfo:

heroku run bash

$ mediainfo
mediainfo: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_3' not found
(required by mediainfo)

[tadast]

@ryanto I'm facing the same issue, if you've ever managed to get it working, would you mind sharing the solution?

[tadast]

What I've discovered so far is that the newest (heroku-18 at the time of writing this) stack does not have libcurl3 which is required by the mediainfo binary in this pack. You can either use an older stack (e.g. heroku-16) or fork the repo and update the mediainfo binary to work with libcurl4 (haven't tried the latter approach)

[ryanto]

@tadast I ended up downgrading to heroku-16.

Do you have instructions for how to update mediainfo with libcurl4?

[tadast]

I haven't tried it, but you can check out the forks on this repo, the last few commits here should provide some guidance. This branch also doesn't work on on heroku-18, so it probably needs another binary built with libcurl4

[problemgenerator]

I ran into this same problem after upgrading from heroku-16 to heroku-20, and was able to get a working version of mediainfo by installing it via heroku-buildpack-apt, following the advice of this Heroku help article: How do I install additional software packages that my application requires?

[nikita-kazakov]

I just went through the same error and found a fix for it through blimpage's solution using heroku-buildpack-apt above. Here's exactly what I did to fix it.