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Native version of Unreal Tournament 2004 (feddit.org)
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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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[โ€“] Hawke@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly this is not a good reason.

Basically the only sticking point IMO would be whether the specific games you enjoy tend to have problems (often due to draconian DRM or anti cheat systems)

[โ€“] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I have those reasons. Multiple games, and several other work-related software requirements. And related to this post I literally have the physical media for UT2004 sitting on my desk because I recently reinstalled it. Like I said, I'm still running Linux on multiple machines but I'm not yet comfortable cutting the cord.

My job is only 10% IT but I'm going to be having to deal with this more soon. I have at least a dozen PCs I'm going to have to make decisions about before Win10 EOL. Maybe I'll be more confident soon after switching over more PCs. Or less. We'll see, it will go one way or the other.