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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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