Heroes of Newerth on 15.04

Question

i tried to run this game on Kubuntu 15.04 (i used to play it two years back) but i cant seem to do that.

When i try to ./hon-x86_64 it spits this error:

./hon-x86_64: /home/aiphee/HoN/libs-x86_64/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuuc.so.52)

When I try to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it writes this:

warning: The VAD has been replaced by a hack pending a complete rewrite
K2 - Fatal Error: PNG header and library versions do not match

I installed libpng14 with alien, any ideas?

EDIT:

Output:

aiphee@aiphee-MS-7596:~$ strings /home/aiphee/HoN/libs-x86_64/libstdc++.so.6 | grep CXXABI

CXXABI_1.3
CXXABI_1.3.1
CXXABI_1.3.2
CXXABI_1.3.3
CXXABI_1.3.4
CXXABI_1.3.5
CXXABI_1.3.6
CXXABI_TM_1

Answer 1

The library libstdc++.so.6 in Ubuntu 15.04 has CXXABI_1.3.8:

% strings /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 | grep CXXABI_1.3.8
CXXABI_1.3.8

• Make the LD_LIBRARY_PATH changes reversed.

• Make a backup of your libstdc++.so.6 in /home/aiphee/HoN/libs-x86_64/ and remove the original file:

  mv /home/aiphee/HoN/libs-x86_64/libstdc++.so.6 /home/aiphee/HoN/libs-x86_64/libstdc++.so.6.bak
  

• Create a symbolic link:

  ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 /home/aiphee/HoN/libs-x86_64/
  

Answer 2

A Heroes of Newerth developer posted this fix on the HoN reddit:

The XML library we use has a new dependency on Ubuntu 15.04 which requires a newer version of the C++ standard library than we use. The internal band-aid fix for this is to grab the libxml2.so.2 from a 12.04.5 and drop it into the HoN/libs-x86_64 directory and then HoN will be able to be launched. Unfortunately we cannot redistribute that file ourselves but its worth trying as a work around for now. You may not have to go that far back (libxml2.so.2 from 14.10 might work fine, for example).

Link: Link to post on reddit

I had the same problem and fixed it this way. I think it's a bit cleaner than any of the other solutions that I found.