glibc and glibc-eac-bin are in conflict (Installed glibc-eac-bin for Insurgency Sandstorm) (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago by promitheas@programming.dev to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

12 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hello everybody! My brother plays Insurgency Sandstorm a lot and I wanted us to be able to play together, so I got it and after some messing about got it working on my system. One of the things I read in forum posts to do to get it to work on an Arch based system is to install glibc-eac-bin which has some patches to make certain games work (I hope I understood that correctly).

Today when I try to update my system I get the following message and it will not allow me to continue:

:: Starting full system upgrade...

resolving dependencies...

looking for conflicting packages...

:: glibc-2.40+r16+gaa533d58ff-1 and glibc-eac-bin-2.40-1 are in conflict. Remove glibc-eac-bin? [y/N]

I dont want to remove glibc, but i want the message to go away and to be able to proceed with my updates. Any suggestions on what I should do?

Thanks in advance

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, thanks for looking it up. This sounds good and harmless.

Now it would be interesting to know if there's a legitimate need for this, or EAC just can't be bothered to fix their software.

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

I'm not that knowledgeable, but I guess it's EAC's fault: Apparently every application known to mankind, that uses glibc, is compatible with (the better) GNU hashtables. Except EAC. It may just be some incompatibility out of their reach, but then I wonder why every other program, native or run via wine, does not have this problem. My guess: They discovered that they could quietly remove GNU hashtable support, and therefore annoy most linux users, while just saying "your stuff is not compatible with my perfectly fine program".

this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024

25 points (93.1% liked)

Linux Gaming

15493 readers

27 users here now

Gaming on the GNU/Linux operating system.