[SOLVED] UT2004 on -current: libstdc++.so.5 is missing

dugan · 12-18-2015, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by andrew.46

Must be lots of old guys on Slackware judging from the build scripts on SBo:

Descent 1 and 2
Open Arena (Quake 3)
Unreal Tournament 2004
Rise of the Triad

And I see some support for shareware Heretic and Doom. I support the Descent 1 & 2 versions and I have great memories of playing all of these games way back when

I think a lot of us in the Slackware forum are in the 30-50 range.

I'm also well aware that many of the regulars in *other* forums (like General) are past retirement age.

andrew.46 · 12-18-2015, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by dugan

I think a lot of us in the Slackware forum are in the 30-50 range.

Make it a 30-55 range to include me

schmatzler · 12-19-2015, 06:30 AM

I'm 26, but I absolutely love old games.

Quake, Doom, UT, Hexen, Heretic - those are a lot of fun! And no DLC's or season passes, just plain games.

1337_powerslacker · 12-19-2015, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by andrew.46

Make it a 30-55 range to include me

Well, I'm strictly mid-range, by that standard. I'll be 44 soon.

dugan · 12-19-2015, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by schmatzler

I'm 26, but I absolutely love old games.

Quake, Doom, UT, Hexen, Heretic - those are a lot of fun! And no DLC's or season passes, just plain games.

I have a gzdoom SlackBuilds that adds an xBRZ scaling patch, that you should try out.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/du...oom.SlackBuild

gzdoom's license is non-commercial and xBRZ's license is GPL (yes, that's a problem), but I'm comfortable with having them as a SlackBuild and a patch.

Also, I'm currently playing a set of DOOM levels called Alien Vendetta. You should really try it, as I'm halfway through (playing with Crispy DOOM, which has crashed a few times) and it's turning out to be one of my best gaming experiences ever. There are 32 levels and every single one is a magnificent work of art. Skill 2 (which the designer recommended in a forum post) is equivalent to DOOM on Skill 4. Skill 3 (which I'm playing on) is equivalent to Plutonia on Skill 4. Skill 4 is for people who want to record replays to show off.

1337_powerslacker · 05-18-2018, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by orbea

I ran into this for another game, I solved it by taking the 14.1 32-bit cxxlibs package, using explodepkg, removing everything except the lib I did need including the symlinks in doinst.sh, using makepkg on it to make a new package and then finally convertpkg-compat32 to make a multilib package for it.

Hey, guys. I don't normally resurrect old threads, but I thought this relevant, since a goodly number of us still play this oldie but goodie. I hadn't played UT2004 in months, but ran into the same problem the OP did in December 2015. Got to poking around in the ChangeLogs for the reason, and came across this:

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a/aaa_elflibs-14.2-x86_64-35.txz: Rebuilt.
Removed obsolete libraries: libudev.so.0.13.1, libgdbm.so.3.0.0,
libhistory.so.5.2, libjpeg.so.8.0.1, libmpfr.so.4.1.6, libpng14.so.14.18.0,
libreadline.so.5.2, libstdc++.so.5.0.7, libtiff.so.3.9.7,
and libtiffxx.so.3.9.7.

This was part of the mass rebuild, and so I overlooked it initially.

I have uploaded a cxxlibs package (note that this is essentially orbea's solution sans the multilib part, as I am using the 64-bit executable) to take care of this problem. Again, just a heads-up for those who might be interested.

orbea · 05-18-2018, 09:09 AM

Yes, its broken here for me again...

Code:

$ eschalon1 
./eschalon_book_1: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

1337_powerslacker · 05-19-2018, 12:41 AM

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a/aaa_elflibs-14.2-x86_64-39.txz: Rebuilt.
Restored libstdc++.so.5.

Thanks, Pat! Much appreciated!

I have removed the cxxlibs package and upgraded aaa_elflibs. UT2004 still runs! Woo-hoo!

Yet another reason why I like Slackware so much: the rapid responsiveness of its BDFL in regards to even the smallest of needs.

1337_powerslacker · 05-19-2018, 02:40 PM

Just to be clear on this subject:

My purpose in posting the customized cxxlibs package wasn't to entice Pat to restore libstdc++.so.5 to aaa_elflibs (although it is appreciated), it was merely to solve an issue I was personally facing, and I didn't feel the need to suggest that it be re-introduced just for my sake. I was not sure who else might need to have the older library installed, and so I posted just for those who were running older games like UT2004.

dTd · 05-23-2018, 07:40 AM

Hrmm, I have the library, but it's 64b, the game doesn't find it, does it need a 32b version?

1337_powerslacker · 05-24-2018, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by dTd

Hrmm, I have the library, but it's 64b, the game doesn't find it, does it need a 32b version?

There are actually two versions of the game executable, one is 32-bit, and the other 64-bit.

ut2004-bin: 32-bit
ut2004-bin-linux-amd64: 64-bit

If you run the latter, it should find the library just fine.