Incompatibility 33.4.0.1 with openSUSE Leap 42.3 ?

[Lucio Chiappetti]

openSUSE Leap 42.3:
Browser version: transition33.2.0 to 33.4.0.1 :

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XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /opt/palemoon/libmozsqlite3.so
/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by /opt/palemoon/libmozsqlite3.so

It's quite a while that I upgrade Pale Moon version asap on my machine as follows:

• via internal updater on the home desktop (Ubuntu 20.04) after backing up old profile, on the same day of announcement (takes less than 1 minute)
• via internal updater on the home laptop (Ubuntu 22.04) unconditionally at first switch on after update (this is a sort of scratch machine I use on holidays only)
• via manual download of GTK2 tar file and untar, after backup of profile and executable, on the "work" desktop (openSUSE Leap 42.3) (fixed established procedure, takes sort of 5 min), this I do sporadically when I go to my old work place (I am a retired associate, sort of emeritus, I may go there once per week or less)

The "installation" procedure on SUSE is slightly more complex wrt Ubuntu due to the different root permissions.
By chance, I had just did the 33.4.0.1 upgrade on the home desktop, and today I went to my old institute for the first time after the summer (thast's why the old one was 33.2.0), so I tried the upgrade to 33.4.0.1. When starting the new version I get the GLIBC library incompatibility messager above.

So I reverted to 33.2.0 on the work machine.
Any way out to overcome this library version issue ?

[Moonchild]

OpenSUSE Leap 42.3 is no longer supported by our mainline binaries since 33.3.0 - this version of OpenSUSE reached extended EoL in 2019 and is now 5 years unsupported by the SUSE devs.
You may still be able to build from source if you can get a modern enough dev toolchain set up on the system, or you may be able to get the required libraries installed on your O.S. manually.

From the release notes:

For Linux users: Starting with this version, our binaries are built with gcc 11 on a still conservative but more modern build platform (Oracle Linux 8). As a result, there may be some lib incompatibilities if you are still running on a particularly old distro for some reason. While we try to serve as broad of a Linux base as possible with our binaries, our lowest common denominator will occasionally shift to newer distros as a result of O.S. life cycles, compiler capabilities and available libraries.