Keepass2 on Linux - fix missing button captions on pop-up dialogs (Yes, No, etc.) issue

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Keepass2 on Linux - Fix missing button captions on pop-up dialogs (Yes, No, etc.)

Since Debian 12 (Bookworm), Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat), text on some buttons is not displayed into Keepass2

Root cause

libgitplus 6.1 embeds pango which breaks some text rendering

Fix

downgrade libgidplus to 6.0.4

Remediation script

doKeepassFix.sh

Sources

• Keepass bug: Text on buttons is not displaying.
• Root cause bug: Some Button Text Does Not Display with 6.1 Release
• Workaround: Missing button captions on pop-up dialogs (Yes, No, etc.)

doKeepassFix.sh

doKeepassFix() (
  # check os
  . /etc/os-release
  [[ ${ID_LIKE} = "debian" ]] || {
    : ${EXCEPTION:?$(echo -e "\e[41mThis script is intended to run on ${ID_LIKE} line os\e[0m")}
  }

  # if libgdiplus exists and does not embeds pango then skip process
  libgdiplus="/usr/lib/libgdiplus.so"
  [[ ! -e ${libgdiplus} ]] || 
    [[ $(strings ${libgdiplus} | grep pango | wc -l) -gt 0 ]] || {
      echo "Nothing to do - libgdiplus already patched" >&2
      return 0
    }

  # Perform downgrade
  arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture)
  baseUrl="http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main"
  pkgs=(
    libj/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg62-turbo_2.1.5-4
    libw/libwebp/libwebp6_0.6.1-2.1+deb11u2
    t/tiff/libtiff5_4.2.0-1+deb11u5
    libg/libgdiplus/libgdiplus_6.0.4+dfsg-2
  )
  cd $(mktemp -d)
  retCode=0
  for pkg in ${pkgs[@]}; do
    url="${baseUrl%/}/${pkg#/}_${arch}.deb"
    curl -sSLfO "${url}" &&
      sudo dpkg -i ./${url##*/} || {
        # Raise error code
        retCode=${?}
        # Display debug
        echo -e "\t\    e[1;4mcwd\e[0m: $(pwd)" >&2
        echo -e "\t\    e[1;4murl\e[0m: ${url}" >&2
        echo -e "\t\e[1;4mpackage\e[0m: ./${url##*/}" >&2
        break
      }
  done
  
  # Lock package if no error occured
  [[ ${retCode} -gt 0 ]] || sudo apt-mark hold libgdiplus
)

doKeepassFix