GLIBC 2.23 runs the game but won't install mods?

[TheSilas]

Hello,

I've recently setup a headless server on an old Dell I had lying around and installed Ubuntu 16.04. This came with GLIBC 2.23-0 installed and headless factorio runs perfectly fine on it.

I am trying to use the Factorio mods manager here (https://github.com/Tantrisse/Factorio-mods-manager), but it needs to point to a GLIBC directory to work. I found the glibc location in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, but that doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?

I also tried to install GLIBC 2.18, but I'm running into issues. It may be that the instructions are written for CentOS and I'm using ubuntu. I'm still new to linux, so I'm not familiar with the commands and equivalents.

Any pointers would be helpful. Thanks!

[ptx0]

oof, that's a 5 year old distro. it's EOL. you should use latest LTS, Ubuntu 20.04.

edit: I just realised you might not know what this means, my bad - it's basically like you installed Windows XP and are having issues installing the latest .NET framework. I don't know if that's a good metaphor for you, but it's pretty close to reality here. EOL means the version doesn't receive updates and is binary incompatible with newly released software.

LTS means it's Long Term Support, you can safely install LTS versions of a distribution and expect compatibility for a reasonable period of time - 2-5 years. (unless it's CentOS, they recently pulled the rug out from everyone and killed it off, so don't use it anymore)

[TheSilas]

Hmmm. I used an older version because I was worried the older hardware would be too slow for the newer OS or the newer OS wouldn't support it. It's an old Pentium D from 2008 with 4 gbs DDR2 ram. Think I'll have much issues getting it to work?

[ptx0]

Hmmm. I used an older version because I was worried the older hardware would be too slow for the newer OS or the newer OS wouldn't support it. It's an old Pentium D from 2008 with 4 gbs DDR2 ram. Think I'll have much issues getting it to work?

things generally only get better over time for older hardware in newer kernels

16.x was pretty recent and not much has changed in that time other than GLIBC ABI and other obvious stuff. i mean, a ton has changed, but not much fundamentals.

[TheSilas]

Ah it looks like I meet the requirements https://ubuntu.com/server/docs#system-requirements of the server edition. I'll give that a shot and see if that helps.

[tmzasz]

Hello,

I've recently setup a headless server on an old Dell I had lying around and installed Ubuntu 16.04. This came with GLIBC 2.23-0 installed and headless factorio runs perfectly fine on it.

I am trying to use the Factorio mods manager here (https://github.com/Tantrisse/Factorio-mods-manager), but it needs to point to a GLIBC directory to work. I found the glibc location in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, but that doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?

I also tried to install GLIBC 2.18, but I'm running into issues. It may be that the instructions are written for CentOS and I'm using ubuntu. I'm still new to linux, so I'm not familiar with the commands and equivalents.

Any pointers would be helpful. Thanks!

so with that try passing "" for both the glib options ( those options are for systems with older than glibc 2.18 )

[TheSilas]

Alright, I got Ubuntu 20.04 server installed now and I'm back to the same place I was before.

so with that try passing "" for both the glib options ( those options are for systems with older than glibc 2.18 )

I just tried that and I get this error message when I try to install a mod:

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user@server:/opt/Factorio-mods-manager$ factorio mod install Squeak%20Through
usage: mods_manager.py [-h] [-v] [-d] [--downgrade] [-p FACTORIO_PATH] [-u USERNAME] [-t TOKEN] [-l] [-i MOD_NAME_TO_INSTALL] [-U] [-e] [-r REMOVE_MOD_NAME]
                       [-E ENABLE_MODS_NAME] [-D DISABLE_MODS_NAME] [--reload] [-s SERVICE_NAME] [-nrd] [-nrrd] [-iod] [-rod] [-icd]
                       [--alternative-glibc-directory ALT_GLIBC_DIR] [--alternative-glibc-version ALT_GLIBC_VERSION] [--update-mod-manager]
mods_manager.py: error: The directory "" for the alternative GLIBC library points to nothing !

To be clear, my config.json looks like this:

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 "alternative_glibc_directory": "",
 "alternative_glibc_version":  ""

[TheSilas]

I should add that I'm now on GLIBC 2.31 with the new version of Ubuntu

[ptx0]

i don't know what that factorio-mod-manager is but it sounds like you should report a bug with its author, because it's not maintained by Wube.

better off just uploading your mods directory..