Perhaps their *side project" launcher tarball isn’t being updated as fast. I just went with the official Windows installer running on Wine (or Proton) and that works on Ubuntu based distros. Proton is pretty much self contained in Steam (every game is their own prefix), so that should work on many more distros too if that is an option.
Any time I have had a problem with the Launcher (not often), I simply cleared the Launcher cache on the file system (I simply rm the launcher cache folder) and reran it and it worked (usually any problems occurred during a launcher update).
Also as per Linux launcher key details that launcher is retired. That’s probably why it’s not working.
The native Linux launcher is at this point considered retired, please see this post for details.
We recommend Steam and Proton (5.0-10 works best at the time of posting) as the easiest option for playing EVE on Linux. As always, we caution open source capsuleers that Linux is an unsupported operating system, and we do not guarantee the viability of this option.
Launcher version: retired
Launcher download link: retired
Shipped wine version: Wine-4.4-StagingChangelog:
14/07/2021 - Retired
17/07/2020 - Launcher 1747682 - Almost a full years worth of changes
07/08/2019 - Launcher 1543721 - Bugfix for very old processors experiencing thread starvation
04/07/2019 - Launcher 1532453 - Fix issue with 64bit flag forgetting setting on launcher restart
28/05/2019 - Launcher 1514997 - Added 64bit checkbox to settings
14/05/2019 - Bumped release wine to wine staging 4.4 32/64bit, paving the way for a 64 bit client build
I thought Linux users read changelogs?