can't run 'wget|curl|git clone' or 'irb' in MobaXterm

Question

A collegaue recommended me to try out MobaXterm (Personal) for my *nix on Windows (7) needs.

It's promissing but I have the following problems:

1. although I had installed ruby (tried the apt-get and plugin method too), I can't run irb at all. irb is in $PATH (/bin/irb, and I did try to run it like /usr/bin/irb too), and when I try to run it, almost nothing happens... wait... wait... then prompt gets back with the unsuccesful mark.
2. the same story with wget|curl|git clone http://....

Do you have any idea, where to start with this issue?

Solution 1

I have also faced the same problem, and one of my expert colleague indicates me that the libopenssl100 is missing. So, with a apt-get install libopenssl100 it works for me (at least for curl).

Hope it helps

Solution 2

Similar error for me; not able to run git, curl and wget. Even also issues with ssh at some point.

For the specific case of cURL, I got this:

D:/Windows/Users/x/MobaXterm/slash/bin/curl.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Accessing the folder and running the curl binary there would lead to an error indicating that cygpsl-5.dll did not exist. Following this answer I searched for the DLL at the Cygwin package search. This indicated possible related packages.

Finally, doing the following solved the issue:

apt-get install libpsl5

You may repeat this for any other missing driver, or even replacing binaries at the folder specified in your error.

Comments

[Zsolt Botykai]

Sadly I got the same answer from their support, but still not working :-/