Baldur’s Gate 2 is the best RPG from the 90’s that still has re-playable value today. I still have the disks after all these years, I did not chose wine to play it as my laptop is an old one and running something without a emulation layer would be more performant.
Installing
There is no package for Fedora 33 but there is a binary package for Linux, but trying to run gemrb I had several unmet dependencies, to fix that I just run.
sudo yum provides $(ldd gemrb | grep 'not found' | awk ' { printf $1 " " }')
This will get which libraries are missing and query the package manager to determinate in which package is the library.
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SDL-1.2.15-45.fc33.i686 : A cross-platform multimedia library
Repo : fedora
Matched from:
Provide : libSDL-1.2.so.0
SDL_mixer-1.2.12-21.fc33.i686 : Simple DirectMedia Layer - Sample Mixer Library
Repo : fedora
Matched from:
Provide : libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0
libpng12-1.2.57-12.fc33.i686 : Old version of libpng, needed to run old binaries
Repo : fedora
Matched from:
Provide : libpng12.so.0
There is an error, because is is only showing the 32-bit version of the dependencies, so we just need to install the 64-bit version of those libraries.
sudo yum serch libSDL-1.2.so.0 libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 libpng12.so.0
But there is one dependency left to hunt, is libvlc.so.5, which I found to be found in vlc-core package.
sudo yum install vlc-core
Now gemrb has all it dependencies resolved :
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd8c3b1000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fbfc4462000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fbfc4440000)
libpython2.7.so.1.0 => /lib64/libpython2.7.so.1.0 (0x00007fbfc4256000)
libvorbisfile.so.3 => /lib64/libvorbisfile.so.3 (0x00007fbfc424b000)
libopenal.so.1 => /lib64/libopenal.so.1 (0x00007fbfc4168000)
libpng12.so.0 => /lib64/libpng12.so.0 (0x00007fbfc4140000)
libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 => /lib64/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 (0x00007fbfc40f2000)
libSDL-1.2.so.0 => /lib64/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0x00007fbfc405b000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /lib64/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007fbfc3f98000)
libvlc.so.5 => /lib64/libvlc.so.5 (0x00007fbfc3f75000)
libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007fbfc3f5b000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fbfc3d73000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007fbfc3c2b000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fbfc3c10000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fbfc3a45000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fbfc4479000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib64/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fbfc3a40000)
libvorbis.so.0 => /lib64/libvorbis.so.0 (0x00007fbfc3a11000)
libogg.so.0 => /lib64/libogg.so.0 (0x00007fbfc3a06000)
libbz2.so.1 => /lib64/libbz2.so.1 (0x00007fbfc39f1000)
libpng16.so.16 => /lib64/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007fbfc39b8000)
libbrotlidec.so.1 => /lib64/libbrotlidec.so.1 (0x00007fbfc39aa000)
libvlccore.so.9 => /lib64/libvlccore.so.9 (0x00007fbfc38c1000)
libbrotlicommon.so.1 => /lib64/libbrotlicommon.so.1 (0x00007fbfc389e000)
libidn.so.12 => /lib64/libidn.so.12 (0x00007fbfc3867000)
libdbus-1.so.3 => /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3 (0x00007fbfc3816000)
libsystemd.so.0 => /lib64/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007fbfc375a000)
librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00007fbfc374f000)
liblzma.so.5 => /lib64/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fbfc3723000)
libzstd.so.1 => /lib64/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007fbfc366d000)
liblz4.so.1 => /lib64/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fbfc364d000)
libgcrypt.so.20 => /lib64/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007fbfc3529000)
libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib64/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007fbfc3508000)
Now it works, we just need to configure games to play with!.
GemRB core version v0.8.7 loading ...
Config: attempting to initialize config with GemRB.cfg
Core: Initializing the Event Manager...
Core: Starting Plugin Manager...
PluginMgr Loading Plugins from /home/travis/build/gemrb/gemrb/build/iprefix/plugins/
Core Plugin Loading Complete...
Core GemRB Core Initialization...
Core Initializing Video Driver...
Core Initializing Search Path...