Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml promitheas @programming.dev 4mo ago

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

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

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I'd say wait a few days to see if glibc-eac-bin gets updated. Could the name refer to easy anti cheat perhaps? The glibc is the official library that comes with Linux distros.
- Yes, glibc-eac is a special version of glibc which supports steams new linux EAC "app", which is required for some/most eac games now, eg. Sea of thieves. I don't have issues using just glibc-eac - which is obviously the self compiled version - as far as I know (I didn't update in some days).
  
  Do you mean you removed the non eac version of glibc?
I switched to flatpak steam because of this issue with a couple of games. Still annoyed that arch's glibc maintainer removed the eac patch.

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