Hi!

I'm running into the following issue on Gentoo Linux with libcurl's default USE flags:
When trying to start the game using the included start.sh script, the game does not launch, complaining about a missing librtmp.so.1 library.

The reason for this is that the game has its own version of libcurl bundled, which was built with rtmp support (meaning: it needs librtmp), while on Gentoo the default USE flags don't pull in librtmp.

The proper fix for this would be to rebuild the libcurl that comes bundled with the game with a configuration that does not depend on librtmp. Or even better: Simply not bundling a libcurl. Or even better than that: Getting rid of the dependency on libcurl. It's probably some anti-feature anyhow.

However until a fix for this is released (if ever...), there's a simple workaround: Don't use start.sh or run.sh, and simply launch the game's binary. That way the bundled libraries aren't loaded, and the problem can be avoided.

The libraries that are bundled with this game seem faulty to me. The version of libopenal that's bundled with this is 32bit (all the rest is 64bit). You can't link a 32bit library against a 64bit executable, can you...?

So yea. All of this can be fixed by just installing all the needed packages on your system and ignoring the bundled libraries.

As a recent linux convert, my general impression of gog's QA practices with regards to linux aren't exactly great...

Probably most Linux users would say their impression of GoG's practices regarding Linux in general aren't great ...

... sometimes I think they're regretting the decision to support Linux and just fear the backlash from canning it completely.

Thanks for the workaround - it makes the game running in Ubuntu 20 as well.