README.md

README

After the 1948278201th time of having to apply this patch manually after a CSGO update I decided it's time for a script. In essense this script will:

1. Detect the distribution
2. Install the respective libtcmalloc via the disto's package manager.
3. Search the lib paths to find the location of libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4
4. Copy it into the GAMEROOT/bin/linux64 path.

Install

Put the contents of patch-gh-issue-2815.sh in the CounterStricke Global Offensive folder (where csgo.sh and csgo_linux64 are). You can easily find the correct path by going to Steam -> Right click on CS:GO -> Manage -> Browse Local Files.

Run

• Open a terminal, navigate to the CSGO path (i.e. cd "CSGOPATH")
• ./patch-gh-issue-2815.sh and hit enter.
• Open CSGO and have fun after a long day of work.

Supported distros

• Debian / Ubuntu (I'm using Ubuntu 21.10 and it works for me)
• Fedora / Centos / RHEL
• Arch linux
• On all other distors - the script will try to find libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4 in the OS library paths such as /lib, /lib64, /usr/lib, /usr/lib64 and so on. First match wins.

Disclamer

I'm using this on my personal machine and it works for me. In general it should work for most of you guys, but you never know so use at own risk.

Issues

I don't have much time to look into issues with this script, but if you report I might fix.

See also

• ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux#2815

patch-gh-issue-2815.sh

#!/bin/sh

set -e

# Copied from csgo.sh script.
GAMEROOT=$(cd "${0%/*}" && echo $PWD)
GAMEROOT_LIB_FILE="$GAMEROOT/bin/linux64/libtcmalloc_minimal.so.0"

echo ""
echo "Auto-patch checklist https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/2815"
echo ""

echo "- Detected GAMEROOT is: ${GAMEROOT}"

[ -f "/etc/os-release" ] || { echo "- Cannot find file /etc/os-release or not readable!"; exit 1; }

. /etc/os-release

echo "- Detected distribution is: ${NAME} ${VERSION_ID}"

# in some cases the ID_LIKE might be missing (i.e. fedora doesn't have it)
[ -z "$ID_LIKE" ] && ID_LIKE="$ID"

# lowercase.
ID_LIKE=`echo "$ID_LIKE" | sed 's/./\L&/g'`

SHOULD_RETURN=false

case "$ID_LIKE" in
    debian)
        PACKAGES="libtcmalloc-minimal4"
        (set -ex; sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y $PACKAGES)
        ;;
    rhel|fedora|centos)
        PACKAGES="gperftools"
        (set -ex; sudo yum install -y $PACKAGES)
        ;;
    arch)
        PACKAGES="gperftools"
        (set -ex; sudo pacman -Sy --noconfirm $PACKAGES)
        ;;
    *)
        echo "- Unknown distribution - will try to guess!"
        SHOULD_RETURN=true
        ;;
esac

if [ ! -f "${GAMEROOT_LIB_FILE}.orig" ] && [ -f "${GAMEROOT_LIB_FILE}" ]; then
    echo "Backing up the original CSGO libtcmalloc_minimal.so.0 file.."
    (set -x; cp "${GAMEROOT_LIB_FILE}" "${GAMEROOT_LIB_FILE}.orig")
fi

echo ""
echo "Searching for installed libmtcalloc..."
echo ""
FOUND=false
LIB_DIRS="/lib /lib64 /usr/lib /usr/lib64"
for LIB_DIR in $LIB_DIRS; do
    FILE=`find $LIB_DIR/* -name libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4 | head -n 1`
    if [ ! -z "${FILE}" ] && [ -f "${FILE}" ]; then
        FOUND=true;
        echo " Found $FILE"
        echo " Copying into $GAMEROOT_LIB_FILE"
        cp "$FILE" "$GAMEROOT_LIB_FILE"
        break
    fi
done

if ! $FOUND; then
    echo "Could not find libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4 in none of these locations: $LIB_DIRS"
    echo ""
    exit 1
fi

echo ""
echo "Done - things should work now."
echo ""

Hey! I'm currently on a holiday and it might take a while for me to have time to check out nobara distribution. My script checks /etc/os-release and ID_LIKE (or sometimes just ID) to detect if the distribution is Fedora/Centos/Ubuntu/etc. It's highly likely it will already detect nobora (or any other distribution that's forking ubuntu/centos/rhel/fedora). If you do cat /etc/os-release and the ID_LIKE is Fedora then it should work without any changes necessary. Otherwise I could check it out in a few weeks. :)