It coudn't start on Linux

[Pumuckel]

It can not start on linux because libtinfo.so.6 library are missing.

~/.steam/steamapps/common/Death Taxi 3000/x64$ ./launcher
./launcher: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

System is Ubuntu- Mate 18.04.4 LTS (Bionic Beaver) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 5.4.0-38-generic x86_64
AMD64 and i386 Packages installed

[Coconut Pizza]

Hi Murray, I am afraid your system is a bit outdated. libtinfo6 is only available on Ubuntu 19.04 onwards, which is already discontinued so you can only find it online earliest from the 19.10 repositories.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/eoan/amd64/libtinfo6/download

If you cannot upgrade your system (20.04 LTS is available), then you might need to install it manually.

And if that doesn't work, you might want to try "symlinking" libtinfo5 to report as version 6 -- this is an unsupported method of course and might bring up other issues, but it's worth a try:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6

[Pumuckel]

Hi Coconut Pizza, thank you for the fast answer. The use of the Symlink is for me no good solution because there a many other library problems they do open so i try it with proton an it run good but not perfect. The only two issues are that isn't playable with dosbox and or the opengl renderer but in software render mode it run fine with proton. Somday i would update my System but maybe i do wait for the Pointrelease of the Ubuntu- Mate 20.04LTS. Thanks for your help. Upgrade the libtinfo5 Package from the 19.10 i would give it a try and tell you if it is a good and easy solution.

[Pumuckel]

To update just the Package libtinfo6.deb is not a good solution just like that linking to the old lib because the Launcher starts just the DosBox Mode. OpenGL and Softwarerenderer are brocken because they want a newer libc6 (GLIBC_2.29 and libm.so.6 inside) but to play it with Proton is not so bad until i update my System to 20.04LTS. Notwithstanding i would like to thank you for this game. It is a good and funny Game with much potential. Good work!

[Coconut Pizza]

I was afraid that would be the case, libtinfo6 is just the tip of the iceberg in the whole GNU GCC stack and it's not easy to upgrade it manually without borking the entire system. I hope you can still enjoy the game via Wine and DOSBox until you get the chance to update!

[delendum]

I've got the same problem on Debian Buster, it has libtinfo6 but an earlier version.
libtinfo6 (6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2) is what's included in Buster

I can get it to work via Proton in software mode, but performance is not fantastic. Likewise for dosbox. Hopefully some kind of solution can be found, I like the game. :)

[Pumuckel]

Hi delendum, i use the proton version "Proton-4.11-GE-1 from the Glorious Eggroll Internet git- page and for me it run fine and smooth and fast but just in software or Dosbox- mode. I hope i can help you with this Information. https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases?after=4.15-GE-4

[Coconut Pizza]

Hi @delendum, the game should not crash if you have the same library, doesn't matter if it is an older version. Installer packages could list it as incompatibilities but as far as I know the game should run.

Steam is not very helpful with error reporting, could you please run the launcher under a terminal window and share the output? The same way Murray did on the OP. It might also be worth bypassing the launcher and running ./taxi and ./taxigl as the launcher has some extra dependencies. In case that works, I can create an alternative launch option inside Steam itself.

[delendum]

Hi both,

Thanks for your quick replies!

@Murray thanks, I'm currently using Proton-5.9-GE-2-MF and it does work 'fine', though performance does decrease significantly if I increase the resolution. Regardless, it's playable.

@Cocounut Pizza indeed, sorry for that, bit of an assumption on my part. Different dependency, this is what I get:
./taxigl: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by ./taxigl)
./taxi: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by ./taxi)

https://packages.debian.org/buster/libc6 is the Debian package that contains libm.so.6, from what I can tell it's again a version issue:

libc6 (2.28-10) vs 2.29 which seems to be required.

[delendum]

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In case this helps.

GPU info: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
Driver Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 440.100
OpenGL Version: 4.6

[Coconut Pizza]

Thank you, that was quite helpful. It turns out there are some compiler options I can use to remove that symbol error with GLIBC, it will just take me a few days to run some tests and I should have an update to support your Debian release!

[delendum]

Awesome stuff! I look forward to it. :)

[Coconut Pizza]

New update is out with a few Linux changes: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1278110/announcements/detail/2718436389064654891

I did some more digging and managed to get rid of the libtinfo dependency entirely, so I am confident the game should be working out of the box with most Linux distros now. I will leave this thread open in case of new error reports.

[delendum]

Awesome update! It all works perfectly for me now - thanks!

[Pumuckel]

Thank You verry mutch. It run Out of the Box in My Case to :)