Gid 12 cannot run on Ubuntu 24.04

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I ran gid12.0.9 on Ubuntu 24.04 and got this error:

symbol lookup error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Done_MM_Var

Moving forward, I think it is wiser to release GiD as snap/flatpak package on Linux.

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off course not all GiD versions are compatible with all OS versions

Maybe with some trick you are able to run it.
try to set before the LD_PRELOAD environment variable pointing to your copy of the libfreetype.so library
e.g. something like

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libfreetype.so
.gid

or maybe installing this freetype library if it is missing or updating

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