Issue with trying to run Descent 2 on Ubuntu Linux
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- linux, ubuntu
- Domain
- operating-systems
Research direction
Start by reproducing the launch from the desktop and command prompt, then inspect the bundled dosbox/dosbox_x86_64 executable and compare its library lookup with ldconfig -p | grep libcaca. Determine why the executable cannot load libcaca.so.0 despite the system library being listed. Done when Descent 2 launches successfully on Ubuntu without the missing-library error.
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Description
Hello,
I am using Ubuntu Linux with the Mint desktop and I purchased Descent 2 on Steam.
When I try to run the game from my desktop, the splash screen displays but then it quits immediately afterwards.
I ran the game at the command prompt and I see this error:
Starting DOSBox
/home/chris/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Descent 2/dosbox/dosbox_x86_64: error while loading shared libraries: libcaca.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
It appears the library is not present, but I did check for the libcac.so.0 library and it is there:
$ ldconfig -p | grep libcaca
libcaca.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcaca.so.0
libcaca++.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcaca++.so.0
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
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