Installing X-Plane 9.4 Demo - missing libopenal.so.0 library

[Ken-san]

Hey all, I'm having a problem with installing X-Plane demo on Karmic (x64). Upon running
./X-Plane\ Demo\ Installer\ Linux
it says
./X-Plane Demo Installer Linux: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
even though I did the following
sudo apt-get install libopenal1
sudo ln -s /usr/liblibopenal.so.1.8.466 /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0

Any ideas?

[ihatenicks]

Same problem here in MINT
libopenal is installed but...!

[hardwarehank]

Works on Karmic 64-bit:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/libopenal.so.1.8.466 /usr/lib32/libopenal.so.0

[Flymo]

Greetings, and thanks for the idea - on Karmic Xubuntu I had to patch your command fractionally to accommodate the file locations:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1.8.466 /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0

These libraries seem to move around as development proceeds, so it is worth looking for missing items - I used Synaptic to finger the install location of libopenal, and (interestingly) found a libopenal.so.1 link to the actual library already in place. Think the system that Austin uses to put the Linux version together may be a rev or two behind the leading edge...?

Anyhow - the Installer now seems to be up and running, many thanks!

All the best, Ben

[opensourcederry]

This link below deals with installing on 32bit Karmic but also covers the openal error so you may be able to get some pointers.

http://www.ilovelinux.co.uk/xplane910-1.php

osd

[Yfrwlf]

Damn, it's half-assed attempts like this that give Linux a bad name. Seriously, either help push for some kind of standards so that a distro will know how to install that library using some standardized naming convention or whatnot that will match up even with distro-specific custom packages which contain it, or include the library in the download. I know everyone loves to ignore me when I complain about packaging standards being important, but, this is one of the reasons why.

Never going to win over normal desktop users with issues like this.

[rdingram]

For those looking to install X-plane in 10.04, use the following to fix the missing dependency.

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1.12.854 /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0

[Malcolm Jackson]

For those looking to install X-plane in 10.04, use the following to fix the missing dependency.

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1.12.854 /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0


Hi rdingram, Many thanks for the info. Put your code into terminal, switched off the PC, and when I rebooted I managed to get X-Plane running on Ubuntu. Brilliant. Thanks for taking the time to help. Nearly 2 weeks of frustration and now sorted.
Best regards.

[HellionDarkLord]

This isn't working for me at all.

libopenal.so.0 => not found

even though I tried the symbolic link thing. I am on linux mint 64bit so that may make all the difference.

I tried adding /lib32/lib.... to the symbolic link, but that didn't work either.

I'm thinking of just going back to 32bit linux where everyrthing works :(