qBittorrent 0.9.3 still looks for libcurl.so.3

[Megan Mack]

For users who have updated from Libcurl 3 to Libcurl 4, and no longer have Libcurl 3, qBittorrent will not open.
It still looks for the /usr/lib/libcurl.so.3 folder and fails to open when it cannot find it.
A quick fix to this problem is to symbolically link the new libcurl folder to the old one like this:
ln -s /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4 /usr/lib/libcurl.so.3
This is just a quick fix, however, and it would be best if qBittorrent could be updated to use libcurl.so.4 automatically if installed.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

Hmm. How did you install qbittorrent? Did you use packages? if so, which ones, which distro, repository, architecture? If you compiled qbittorrent manually, just rebuild qbittorrent against libcurl4 instead of libcurl3, it will compile/run fine.

Concerning Debian/Ubuntu packages, they are made by me but my repositories now install v1.0.0rc11 (not v0.9.3) and they are already built against libcurl4.

[Megan Mack (violagirl23)]

Built on Gentoo on a i586 from an ebuild (so from source). It was built about a week ago and was the newest stable version available in Gentoo at that time (one week ago).
However, I found the solution to the problem on a wiki for Redhat, and googling also produced a similar complaint at a thread in the Ubuntu messageboard, so I do not feel that this is a Gentoo-specific issue.
I at the very least wanted to make the fix more readily known for those using this version by filing a bug report.

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

I contacted the gentoo maintainer about this and here is his answer:
armin76> in that case he should reemerge qbittorrent...

As I said, this is just a matter of rebuilding qbittorrent with the latest libs on your system. This can't be considered as a bug in qbittorrent.