program can't find shared library

[joetait]

Hi


I purchased the latest humble bundle and I tried to get Thomas was alone working. I downloaded the .tar file, extracted it to my Desktop. I then made it executable (for sake of ease I just used

chmod 777 thomasWasAlone

When I try to run it from the terminal, with

./thomasWasAlone

I get the following output

joe@Daisy:~$ Desktop/thomasLinuxStandalone/thomasWasAlone
Desktop/thomasLinuxStandalone/thomasWasAlone: error while loading shared libraries: libXcursor.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have installed libxcursor1 and libxcursor1-dbg though, so I am not sure why it can't find them. If anyone has any insight it would be much appreciated


Thanks in advance


Joe


Edit - I have checked the checksum too btwH

[ShadowVegan]

If it's a shared file maybe it requires root? Did you try typing sudo at the beginning of the command?

sudo Desktop/thomasLinuxStandalone/thomasWasAlone

[joetait]

Hi there

Yeah, I did try that, but I got exactly the same error.

Thanks for the suggestion though

[steeldriver]

I don't know anything about Humble Bundles but based on the dir name 'thomasLinuxStandalone' I'm guessing this ships with its own .so libraries rather than using the system supplied ones?

Although your post says your are executing ./thomasWasAlone, you actually appear to be in your home directory ~ and are executing with a relative path from there i.e. as Desktop/thomasLinuxStandalone/thomasWasAlone - that's not quite the same thing, if the bundle has hardwired relative paths for libraries (for instance, it may be expecting to find libXcursor.so.1 at ../lib relative to the current directory)

My guess would be to try changing to the actual thomasLinuxStandalone dir and trying from there - unless there's a README file that tells you otherwise

cd Desktop/thomasLinuxStandalone
./thomasWasAlone

OTOH if it is looking for a system-supplied libXcursor.so.1 library, you can check if it's installed with

apt-cache policy libxcursor1

[joetait]

Hi Steeldriver


I have tried starting in the directory too, but unfortunately to no avail. I get exactly the same error. And the libraries are certainly installed. Thanks anyway though

[Cheesemill]

Are you running a 64-bit install by any chance?

If you are then the game is probably looking for the 32-bit versions of the libraries, which you may not have installed.
If this is the case then try installing them...

sudo apt-get install libxcursor1:i386 libxcursor1-dbg:i386

[joetait]

Cheesemill, that is superb. Works perfectly now, thank you very much!

[RayDeCampo]

Thanks Cheesemill, helped me as well.