hey guys, need help on how to install unity hub on my ubuntu 24.04, i tried some of things but they didn’t seem to be working. (I am new to linux)
Just follow the tutorial and it should install. I tested it on the same OS. Make sure you do every step in order.
Follow the steps described here and it’ll work. Yes, installing Unity on Linux is stupidly complicated. That’s Unity’s fault, not Linux.
I installed Unity on ubuntu 25.10, using the official instructions here
I downloaded a recent LTS install (6.3 at the time of writing).
When creating project it silently wouldn’t start.
Then ran the editor from command line - ~/Unity/Hub/Editor/6000.3.8f1/Editor/Unity , and it complained about missing libraries - libxml2.so.2, libicudata.so.74, libicuuc.so.74 in my case, in your case the list might be different.
These libs don’t exist in any system folders (e.g. /usr/lib), but do exist in snap packages (e.g. /snap/mesa-2404/1165/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/) in my case - you can locate them using the locate package (sudo apt install locate && locate libxml2.so.2).
I copied these 3 libraries into a newly created folder /usr/lib/my-libs, from the snap locations, and added a new LD file in /etc/ld.conf.d, with the content /usr/lib/my-libs, followed by re-building the LD cache sudo ldconfig.
After this, the editor started.
Problems were not over - the scene view was flickering badly using default OpenGL renderer. For this I changed the renderer to Vulkan, and it started working properly. For this, in the editor window,
- I clicked Edit/Project Settings
- Clicked on the “Player” tab
- Disabled “Auto Graphics API for Linux”
- Under the “Graphics API for Linux”, dragged “Vulkan” before “OpenGLCore”
This solved the issue.