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As others have discovered over the last 1 1/2 years, the 32-bit support required to run Myth II in 64-bit Linux distributions is now considered to be a legacy item, and openSUSE 13.2 x86_64 DVD is no exception to the trend. The following notes indicate what was required to get Myth II Version 1.8.0 running in this particular Linux distro. One-Click installation of multimedia codecs was previously performed as described here:

http://opensuse-community.org/

The following packages (and their dependencies) must be installed in order to get the Version 1.8.0 installer to run for a new installation:

libgtk-2_0-0-32bit (+74 dependencies)
libgthread-2_0-0-32bit
libXtst6-32bit

Once Myth II is installed (and QuickTime cutscenes manually added), the following packages (and their dependencies) must be installed in order to get the game to run:

libGLU1-32bit
libudev1-32bit
libopenal1-32bit

Although I haven't had much time to evaluate performance, it seems to be similar to earlier versions of openSUSE with no errors in the log file and properly functioning graphics and sound on a Gateway laptop with a Pentium dual-core processor.

Thanks for sharing your findings on this. I'm sure some people will find it useful.

In case people are wondering - If it were easy to create a native 64 bit executable we would, but unfortunately the myth code relies on sizeof(void*)==4 in so may places that it's not really feasible to fix.