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I'm in, Ubuntu 14.04, evemail sent.

Okay, I think I'll be wrting down my experience here rather than mailing CCP Snorlax because it may benefit other people.

Okay, I downloaded and extracted the launcher, checked eveonline.sh contents just in case (lol steam runtime removing home) and ran it.

The launcher ran just fine, but requested an update.
Update succeded, but the launcher failed to run again:

libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: i965
libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: i965
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
Unrecognized OpenGL version
Unrecognized OpenGL version

This is a common problem for applications bundled together with their own libstdc++.so.6. It's caused by version mismatch with libstdc++ linked dynamically by mesa. Common headache when dealing with steam runtime. I guess ubuntu is unaffected because libstdc++ is not bleeding edge enough there. Particularily in my case the system version is 6.0.22 from gcc-libs-multilib 6.1.1-1, while bundled version is 6.0.19.
It's fixed with LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.
Quite franky I don't see a reason to bundle libstdc++, since it should be in repos of any distro, and most likely installed, and the common way to deal with steam runtime is just remove the offending libraries from premises.

Anyway, with libstdc++ overriden the launcher works and finds the SharedCache (probably just some kind of default location in my case? EDIT: Ah, it missed by a directory, I've got a noice SharedCache inception on the old install, so it kinda screwed up). Unfortunately the user profile is created anew in wineenv, so I had to manually copy client settings to be able to use the necessary profile.

After dealing with all this stuff the game works fine. Oh, the loglite works too.

The only problem is, I use primus, so by default it runs on the integrated card, and primusrun evelauncher.sh obviously does nothing. I had to manually edit evelauncher.sh changing $dirname/$appname "$@" to primusrun $dirname/$appname "$@" to make it run on the discrete card. I guess adding a setting in the launcher that would set up launch options for the client would be nice (like it's done in steam, you can do primusrun %command% there in the launch options).

PS: here's the console output for the launcher:

[0519/192824:ERROR:resource_bundle.cc(691)] Failed to load /home/infine/evelauncher/qtwebengine_resources.pak
Some features may not be available.
[0519/192824:ERROR:resource_bundle.cc(691)] Failed to load /home/infine/evelauncher/qtwebengine_resources_100p.pak
Some features may not be available.
[0519/192824:ERROR:resource_bundle.cc(691)] Failed to load /home/infine/evelauncher/qtwebengine_resources_200p.pak
Some features may not be available.
[0519/192824:WARNING:resource_bundle.cc(304)] locale_file_path.empty()
Installed Qt WebEngine locales directory not found at location /home/infine/evelauncher/translations/qtwebengine_locales. Trying application directory...
Qt WebEngine locales directory not found at location /home/infine/evelauncher/qtwebengine_locales. Trying fallback directory... Translations MAY NOT not be correct.
[0519/192824:ERROR:resource_bundle.cc(691)] Failed to load /home/infine/evelauncher/qtwebengine_resources.pak
Some features may not be available.
[0519/192824:ERROR:resource_bundle.cc(691)] Failed to load /home/infine/evelauncher/qtwebengine_resources_100p.pak
Some features may not be available.
[0519/192824:ERROR:resource_bundle.cc(691)] Failed to load /home/infine/evelauncher/qtwebengine_resources_200p.pak
Some features may not be available.
[0519/192824:WARNING:resource_bundle.cc(304)] locale_file_path.empty()
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; SteamAPI_IsSteamRunning() failed.
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; unable to locate a running instance of Steam, or a local steamclient.so.
ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.
ATTENTION: option value of option force_s3tc_enable ignored.

Well, the point of a more controlled test was to allow me to get initial feedback before making this all public, but whatever.

The inclusion of libstd++6 was a failed experiment, I'd already taken that out again, I just forgot to update the version number the launcher wants to update itself to. That has been fixed now.

Nah, no need for that.

Thanks, everybody - so far the initial tests have been promising. I'll polish this up a bit and hope to post a download link next week.

Besides a shadow mesh graphical error, CQ works great with this toolchain. I'm impressed.

The installation seems to create a directory named "EVE" right in my home folder. This is a bit of bad manners - the un-hidden directories in the home directory are for documents, music, downloads and the like, not for apps data. Can this directory be located in a hidden location in my home folder?

Besides that, I still get no sound with this (very nice) launcher.

This sounds jolly good.

This is actually not new ... the wine version of EVE did the same for me. *think* will double check

I like this launcher. It worked quite well, other than the lack of sound. It did look like different version of wine was loaded. When I launched from my 'old' installation of Eve the sound worked. When launched from the new launcher no sound. Logs sent