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I have installed unbunto onto my old laptop which for sure can run FTL but everytime I launch it steam says its preparing to launch but that little window dissapears in less than a second and nothing happens. I would love to get this working if anyone has any solutions to this.

Hello! Sorry about the problem.

Can you navigate directly to the FTL installation folder in a terminal and run it from there? I believe that Steam stores their games locally here:

~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/FTL Faster Than Light

But I could be mistaken.

If you can find it and run it from a terminal, there should be some helpful output to diagnose what's going wrong.

I have no idea how to even use unbunto. Probably why I cant find what your talking about. >.<

Sorry for the delay in responding. It's been busy with the sale going on.

I believe if you go to the top right icon on Ubuntu there's an option to search for applications you have installed. Just search for and run the Terminal. Once it opens, type in the following commands, hitting enter after each one:

cd ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/FTL Faster Than Light
./FTL

And then FTL should try to run. I could have the pathing wrong, but since I don't currently have access to a Linux machine I can't double check it. If anyone else could confirm that would be helpful

One fix for Linux launch problems also just involves deleting the stdc++ library FTL ships with. If you navigate in an explorer window (I believe there should be a "go to" option where you can type in that path, otherwise you might need to reveal hidden folders in order to find .local in your home directory) and dig into the bin folders of the FTL installation you will find "libstdc++.so.6" (both in the 32 and 64 folders, delete just the one relevant to your system or both to be safe).