diff --git a/qt/launcher/lin/install.sh b/qt/launcher/lin/install.sh
index c9f129654..02aaf4997 100755
--- a/qt/launcher/lin/install.sh
+++ b/qt/launcher/lin/install.sh
@@ -7,6 +7,25 @@ if [ "$(dirname "$(realpath "$0")")" != "$(realpath "$PWD")" ]; then
   exit 1
 fi
 
+MINIMUM_REQUIRED_GLIBC_VERSION=2.36
+# `ldd --version` returns the version of glibc, such as 2.41 with other text.
+# `grep --only-matching "[0-9]\+.[0-9]\+"` returns the (version) numbers.
+# `head --lines=1` only returns the first number (which is the glibc version)
+users_glibc_version=$(
+    ldd --version | grep --only-matching "[0-9]\+.[0-9]\+" | head --lines=1
+)
+
+# check if the users glibc is less than the required glibc and abort if true.
+# bash doesn't do floating point comparisons. But integer comparisons do work.
+# Thus, `$(echo $variable | sed "s/\.//")` is used to get an integer
+# representation of the floating point number (2.36 becomes 236).
+if [ $(echo $users_glibc_version | sed "s/\.//") -lt \
+     $(echo $MINIMUM_REQUIRED_GLIBC_VERSION | sed "s/\.//") ]; then
+    echo "Error: Your glibc version is $users_glibc_version but" \
+         "$MINIMUM_REQUIRED_GLIBC_VERSION is required. Aborting."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
 if [ "$PREFIX" = "" ]; then
 	PREFIX=/usr/local
 fi