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[-] uis@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Umm... Zlib is everywhere. It just works. Even without steam. Even 20-years old games can run on moderns distros while using system libraries. Like UT2004 does.

[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Managed to delete my comment by mistake (sorry for the two notifications)

If a common library like zlib is in a non-standard place or is not symlinked to a standard place then I've seen GOG games fail to launch. Steam's vendoring approach makes supporting a variety of distros much easier.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Which is wierd. The only way I can imagine this happaning is linking to a library by absolute path. Can you check binary with ldd?

5-minutes google-fu says you can use patchelf to fix issue, but you better check with ldd and report as bug.

this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
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