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?
You’re much better off either running it in a container that provides the ancient libraries it needs or running the Windows version through Proton. Otherwise, my understanding is that if you were to theoretically provide it everything it needed, you’d basically be downgrading your distro to a version from 2004.
The Proton approach is what I would try.
If all else fails I’ll fall back to the Windows version, would make me very sad though.