Glibc-eac Does it need to be reinstalled?

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I wondered if anyone else has come across the issue of needing to install glibc-eac in order for Insurgency Sandstorm to load properly and run. In many google posts and on protondb I see mention of this as an issue for Arch OS users. When I looked at using yay to install AUR version of glibc-eac, I found that the exact one was apparently already resident on my system, so I aborted. Is is possible that it needs to be reinstalled or is corrupted? I am too novice to make alterations that might blow up my system. I have other games that use EAC and they do run.

Thanks in advance for any input possible.
Barry

System:
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Failed units:
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I did go ahead and yay -S glibc-eac and installed. Nothing changed, the game doesn’t load. Probably this is related to something else unknown?

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Try yay glibc-eac without -S and select the appropriate package.

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If you use Garuda Linux, the use of “yay” is just an alias for paru. :slight_smile: FYI :wink:

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That’s right. One is written in Rust, the other in Go, but both do the same thing.
@ bmirtsching, If you use paru, you need the suffix -S

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paru sshfs
 1 extra/sshfs 3.7.3-2 [0 B 95.03 KiB] [Installiert]
    FUSE client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol
 2 aur/sirikali 1.6.0-1 [+32 ~0.80]
    A Qt/C++ GUI front end to sshfs, ecryptfs-simple, cryfs, gocryptfs, securefs, fscrypt and encfs
 3 aur/sftpman 1:1.2.2-1 [+31 ~0.00]
    Application that handles sshfs/sftp file systems mounting.
 4 aur/sshmnt 1.6.1-1 [+31 ~0.00]
    A utility for managing multiple sshfs profiles from the commandline
 5 aur/sftpman-gtk 1.3.0-0 [+30 ~0.00]
    GTK frontend for SftpMan (application that handles sshfs/sftp file systems mounting).
 6 aur/qsshfs 1.1.0-3 [+5 ~0.00] [Veraltet: 2023-12-11]
    A gui wrapper around sshfs, written in Qt
 7 aur/sirikali-bin 1.6.0-2 [+2 ~0.01]
    A Qt/C++ GUI front end to sshfs, ecryptfs-simple, cryfs, gocryptfs, securefs, fscrypt and encfs
 8 aur/sirikali-git 1.4.6.r9.d73a7ab-1 [+1 ~0.00] [Veraltet: 2023-11-08] [Verwaist]
    A Qt/C++ GUI front end to sshfs, ecryptfs-simple, cryfs, gocryptfs, securefs, fscrypt and encfs
 9 aur/sshfsmux 1.2-3 [+1 ~0.00]
    Multiplexer client based on the Secure Shell FileSystem
10 aur/sshfs-reconnect-git r1.34ca815-1 [+0 ~0.00]
    An easy command to mount sshfs as reconnect.
:: Zu installierende Pakete (z. B: 1 2 3, 1-3):
::
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Thanks, SGS! I use yay out of habit, but I should also read up on the paru commands:sweat_smile:

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So here are all of the packages listed by yay glibc-eac (without the -S): Since the one that I installed with the -S did nothing (there was only one package offered with the -S option), how to I know which of these to choose?

8 aur/lib32-glibc-eac-bin 2.39+r52+gf8e4623421-4 [+0 ~0.00]
GNU C Library (32-bit) with DT_HASH patch for games using EAC (CI built binary version)
7 aur/glibc-eac-locales-bin 2.39+r52+gf8e4623421-4 [+0 ~0.00]
Pregenerated locales for GNU C Library (CI built binary version)
6 aur/glibc-eac-bin 2.39+r52+gf8e4623421-4 [+0 ~0.00]
GNU C Library with DT_HASH patch for games using EAC (CI built binary version)
5 aur/lib32-glibc-eac 2.39+r52+gf8e4623421-1 [+11 ~1.49]
GNU C Library (32-bit) with DT_HASH patch for games using EAC
4 aur/glibc-eac-locales 2.39+r52+gf8e4623421-1 [+11 ~1.49]
Pregenerated locales for GNU C Library
3 chaotic-aur/lib32-glibc-eac 2.39+r52+gf8e4623421-1 [3.33 MiB 17.79 MiB]
GNU C Library (32-bit) with EAC patches
2 aur/glibc-eac 2.39+r52+gf8e4623421-1 [+11 ~1.49]
GNU C Library with DT_HASH patch for games using EAC
1 chaotic-aur/glibc-eac 2.39+r52+gf8e4623421-1 [0 B 47.21 MiB]
GNU C Library with EAC patches
:: Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3):

I also updated my system after reverting to the original glibc version. I note afrter the update, glibc is 2.40 and these packages are not.

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Messing with glibc and its dependencies can cause system breaking faults.

These libraries, as far as I am concerned , have to many other packages that depend on it. Not worth while.

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Not to mention all glibc-eac packages are currently marked as out of date AUR (en) - Packages

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My take on package managment. In order.

  1. Arch & chaotic repos
  2. AUR
  3. AppImages
  4. Flatpack
    (5.) Build from source.

If it isn’t available “as is” and gives dependency errors, I would drop it.

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So, what solution (if any) is there to getting EAC fixes on Arch so that multiple games actually work? Garuda is a gaming focused distro from my understanding. It appears that non-Arch linux users are able to use these EAC packages to successfully run games like Insurgency Sandstorm.

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Really up to the game maker to make things work. Bad EAC implementations are just that.
The package isn’t a silver bullet anyways when it comes to EAC; it is more of a patch for when the DT_HASH is absent. EAC can work without that package, just depends on the game.
https://areweanticheatyet.com/

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Thanks. According to this database, Insurgency Sandstorm has enabled EAC support for linux, but this is the crux of my issue: the implementation seems not to work on Arch, but does on other linux platforms. So how do we get the game dev itself to address that, if one is not safe to install packages such as glibc-eac without risk to “break” our system? Maybe there is no answer to this.

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linking a reply from xiota on the AUR page here:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/glibc-eac#comment-983754

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Yes, thanks. I did install the updated glibc-eac from AUR. No performance issues since and Insurgency Sandstorm works normally!

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