Dangling Symlinks in Debian Package

[Johan2403Me]

Which version of GCM are you using?

gcm 2.0.605

Which Git host provider are you trying to connect to?

• Azure DevOps
• Azure DevOps Server (TFS/on-prem)
• GitHub
• GitHub Enterprise
• Bitbucket
• Other - please describe

Can you access the remote repository directly in the browser using the remote URL?

From a terminal, run git remote -v to see your remote URL.

• Yes
• No, I get a permission error
• No, for a different reason - please describe

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[Azure DevOps only] What format is your remote URL?

• Not applicable
• https://dev.azure.com/`{org}`/...
• https://{org}@dev.azure.com/{org}/...
• https://{org}.visualstudio.com/...

[Azure DevOps only] If the account picker shows more than one identity as you authenticate, check that you selected the same one that has access on the web.

• Not applicable
• I only see one identity
• I checked each identity and none worked

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Expected behavior

/usr/local/bin/Atlassian.Bitbucket.UI should point to /usr/local/share/gcm-core/Release/Atlassian.Bitbucket.UI
/usr/local/bin/git-credential-manager-core should point to /usr/local/share/gcm-core/Release/git-credential-manager-core
/usr/local/bin/GitHub.UI should point to /usr/local/share/gcm-core/Release/GitHub.UI

Actual behavior

/usr/local/bin/Atlassian.Bitbucket.UI points to /usr/local/share/gcm-core/Atlassian.Bitbucket.UI
/usr/local/bin/git-credential-manager-core points to /usr/local/share/gcm-core/git-credential-manager-core
/usr/local/bin/GitHub.UI points to /usr/local/share/gcm-core/GitHub.UI

Logs

Package installation:

$ sudo dpkg -i gcmcore-linux_amd64.2.0.605.12951.deb
Selecting previously unselected package gcmcore.
(Reading database ... 202401 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack gcmcore-linux_amd64.2.0.605.12951.deb ...
Unpacking gcmcore (2.0.605.12951) ...
Setting up gcmcore (2.0.605.12951) ...
$ git-credential-manager-core configure
git-credential-manager-core: command not found
$ dpkg -L gcmcore
/.
/usr
/usr/local
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/share
/usr/local/share/gcm-core
/usr/local/share/gcm-core/Release
/usr/local/share/gcm-core/Release/Atlassian.Bitbucket.UI
/usr/local/share/gcm-core/Release/GitHub.UI
/usr/local/share/gcm-core/Release/NOTICE
/usr/local/share/gcm-core/Release/git-credential-manager-core
/usr/local/share/gcm-core/Release/libHarfBuzzSharp.so
/usr/local/share/gcm-core/Release/libSkiaSharp.so
/usr/local/bin/Atlassian.Bitbucket.UI
/usr/local/bin/GitHub.UI
/usr/local/bin/git-credential-manager-core
$ ls -l /usr/local/bin
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1001 avahi-autoipd 40 Nov 16 21:15 Atlassian.Bitbucket.UI -> ../share/gcm-core/Atlassian.Bitbucket.UI
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1001 avahi-autoipd 45 Nov 16 21:15 git-credential-manager-core -> ../share/gcm-core/git-credential-manager-core
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1001 avahi-autoipd 27 Nov 16 21:15 GitHub.UI -> ../share/gcm-core/GitHub.UI

[ldennington]

Hi Johan - this has been fixed by #539. However, this has yet to be released. For now, the suggested workaround is to run:

sudo mv /usr/local/share/gcm-core/Release/* /usr/local/share/gcm-core/ && sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/gcm-core/Release/

[Johan2403Me]

Hi Idennington,

Thanks for your reply. I've used the workaround and now it works fine.
I'll close this issue.