7.00 Hotfix 1 for Linux.

Be notified those whom don't read official forums that Egosoft have already started 7.10 Public Beta testing.

Same here on Fedora 40. I renamed a file named something like "libz2.so.1" to "libbz2.so.1.0" (see the missing B in the first name?).
After that I can start the game, watch the Egosoft logo and then I get a black screen with some grey lines... I'm kind of frustrated with 7.00 so far. 6.20 had no such flaws.

Edit: The file I renamed is in the X4 folder game/lib.

Hi there,
If you installed it with the Gog installers, and you are in Ubuntu or a Debian derivative, you could try:

sudo apt-file search libbz2.so.1

to find out which package contains that library.

In Pop! Os is the package that has it: libbz2-1.0.

sudo apt install libbz2-1.0

If you installed it with a launcher like Heroic or Lutris?
I had similar problems after the update with the Heroic Launcher flatpack. The first time I solved it by running ./start.sh from the command line.

The second time, I ended up having to uninstall everything and just use the gog installers. You can add the installation to any launcher later.

If you are going to take drastic measures, remember to back up your config and saves. The folder is:
~/.config/Egosoft/x4

Good luck!
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I do not have Fedora in any local system now, but I think this might help:

Find the package you need:
sudo dnf provides libbz2.so.1

Install the package that contains the library:
sudo dnf install [package name].

Rename the modified file to its original name.
Find the location of libbz2.so.1 and create a softlink.
Suppose it is in: /lib64/libbz2.so.1
and you are in the game installation folder, the same location as the start.sh file.

ln -s /lib64/libbz2.so.1 game/lib/libbz2.so.1.0

This is a long shot, but I think it might help.

Thanks for that! I went ahead and downloaded the Windows installers for Timelines, cracked 'em open with innoextract, and just like you said, there was the subfolder with the Timelines mod needed to drop into my game folder. Bam!

Good job!

thanks for the answer.
i found it here:
bzip2-libs-1.0.8-18.fc40.i686 : Libraries for applications using bzip2
Paketquelle : @System
Übereinstimmung von:
Bereitstellen : libbz2.so.1

bzip2-libs-1.0.8-18.fc40.i686 : Libraries for applications using bzip2
Paketquelle : fedora
Übereinstimmung von:
Bereitstellen : libbz2.so.1

but for now i running it with wine to have access to timelines until i timelines is available by gog...

PS:i am also running fedora 40.

i tried it to install with heroic and lutris and both are not working.
6.20 was running with lutris (ok i had to run for some reason one time postinstall.sh) but then it works.

The package needed to get libbz2.so.1 is installed. Maybe the problem is, that the game needs libbz2.so.1.0 with the additional 0.
I don't have much time right now, so I'm not yet rebuying the game on steam to get proper linux support, but when I find some spare-minutes, I'll try your workaround. I understand what it does and it's worth a try.
And yes, I was playing 6.20 with the heroic flatpak, which was an overall smooth experiance. Afte manually starting the postinst.sh

Perfect, thank you. I just copied the extensions directory and the goggame-1143004245.* files.

Thanks a lot! I installed it using your method and it worked like a charm.

Like Gam0r, I copied the directory and the goggame-1143004245.* files.

I don't know if it's related, but as the Ventures extension failed validation, I deleted the Ventures folder so the game could redownload it.

Are we Linux users or mice!?!

The symbolic link was exactly what X4 needed. I found libbz2.so.1.0.8 in the lib64 folder AND already a symbolic link named libbz2.so.1 - so I created another symbolic link with

sudo ln -s /lib64/libbz2.so.1.0.8 /lib64/libbz2.so.1.0

Runs smooth. Thank you very much for your help.

Well, holy crap! The Linux version of Timelines is up... and only a month behind schedule.

But only in english. If you choose another language it's still missing.

And yes, today it's four weeks...

Edit: Today (3. Aug. 2024) I can see Timelines for Linux in german. Don't know when it came online... so, are we prepared for the same story with 7.10?