Native version of Unreal Tournament 2004 (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by ackthxbye@feddit.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I recently switched to Nobara and I'm currently trying to get everything to work. I'll be a bit spammy here looking for help, I hope that's ok.

Today I would like to install my retail version of Unreal Tournament 2004 that came on a DVD. I got the installer for the native Linux version to run and copied over the latest patch. But when I try to run the game i get ./ut2004-bin-linux-amd64: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried to install libstdc++ through dnf and got

Package "libstdc++-15.1.1-2.fc42.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "libstdc++-15.1.1-2.fc42.i686" is already installed.

In /root/lib I habe a libstdc++.so.6

Does ".so.5" mean I need version 5. How do I get the version Unreal Tournament 2004 wants?

Or would it be easier to use the Windows version through Wine?

edit: managed to get the native version to run: https://feddit.org/post/15075302/7666396

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe. But more importantly, it downloads a new binary.

[-] ackthxbye@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Right. I tried that patch now, but it still wants libstdc++.so.5

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 1 month ago

Bummer. Maybe you can get that from some other distro's package and add to the library path.

But at that point going the Proton route is probably easier.

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