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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.