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Native version of Unreal Tournament 2004 (feddit.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Usually you can symlink to other versions and it will work fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well yeah, but how do i figure out which version I need and where do I get that version?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

What I mean is, you create a link from "libxyz.wanted.so" to "libxyz.present.so", so when the game is looking for the libxyz.wanted.so file, it actually reads the libxyz.present.so file.
You do this with the symbolic links and ln -s, but check the order of the parameters, as I always get those with long the first time around.