Can't install Utorrent on ReadyNAS 6.10.9

At the end of the day, you either need to apply the patches or run the app on a different machine.  There's only so many ways I can try to explain this to you.  You should get them soon, as Sandshark could take them down at any time. And keep them for future use.

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r32nj wrote:

why would it have broken when it had been working on my 626X for a couple of years now?

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Here's another try:

Many app packages have install scripts that have dependencies on other libraries.  These dependencies require the installation to access the repo that holds those libraries.  Those libraries are built for specific versions of linux, so the repo location is in a configuration file for the machine, and not in the installation script itself.  

So the install scripts frequently say "hey, I need version x.x.x.x of the following library".  The apt software that does the installation has a separate configuration file that tells the system where to look for the libraries that are built specifically for Debian 8.  Debian 12 or Ubuntu 23 (for example) need libraries built specifically for those OS, and they have their own repos.  You have to get the libraries for your version of linux. 

In summary, the app install says what libraries it needs, and the sources.list on the NAS tells the apt software how to find those libraries.

The Debian 8 repo that holds those libraries was moved into archive earlier this year.

As a result of that move, the NAS no longer has the correct info on where to find the needed libraries. So those installs will fail.  That is what the patches address.  They

1. replace the old repo locations with archived repos in the apt configuration file (the sources list mod).
2. disable the digital signature check, since that check fails on the archived libraries (the new apt.conf).

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r32nj wrote:

Since I don't believe the Utorrent app has been updated

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For now, what matters is the library dependencies that are in the install script of the app.  Personally it's not an app I care about, so I'm not planning to spend any time reverse-engineering the app install.

No idea what the future of utorrent linux packages might be, but there certainly are other apps that are no longer compatible with ReadyNAS.  That will happen to more and more apps as time goes on. Imagine you are still running Windows XP.  If you are, you can't install the current version of Chrome - it just fails.  Some other programs might still install, but over time more and more programs fail as Chrome does now.  This is the same situation with ReadyNAS.  It's running a version of linux that became end-of-life in 2020.

The patches won't solve that.  In the past Netgear periodically removed incompatible apps from the app list.  I suspect no one is paying attention to that anymore, now that all ReadyNAS are end-of-life.

r32nj wrote:

I'm wondering if Netgear is going to keep up with the support of the ReadyNAS OS to keep it current with where the Linux OS is going.  It's disappointing to learn that it seems that is not currently the case.

 

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It is disappointing, but that ship has sailed.  All ReadyNAS hardware platforms are end-of-life, as is the underlying Linux OS.  Some software releases are still coming out, but they are almost entirely limited to security updates.