Running Quake 4 on Ubuntu 13.10

[garyzw]

I get the following error

./quake4.x86: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Urban Terror and Return to Castle Wolfenstein work fine with Ubuntu 13.10

[Toz]

[toz@xubu ~]$ apt-file search libSDL-1.2.so.0
libsdl1.2debian: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL-1.2.so.0
libsdl1.2debian: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.4
[toz@xubu ~]$ apt-cache policy libsdl1.2debian
libsdl1.2debian:
  Installed: 1.2.15-5ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.2.15-5ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.15-5ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Do you have libsdl1.2debian installed? If so, have you tried re-installing it?

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libsdl1.2debian

Are you have a 32 or 64 bit?

uname -a

[garyzw]

I have 64 bit. I did the sudo apt-get install --reinstall libsdl1.2debian and I stil have the same error

[Toz]

I have 64 bit. I did the sudo apt-get install --reinstall libsdl1.2debian and I stil have the same error

64 bit? You're probably running into the "app/game is 32-bit but I want to run it on 64-bit but the ia32-libs package is deprecated" problem. I'm going to install it on my system (been a while since I've played and all this talk about it is making me nostalgic) and I'll see what I can do. We're going to have to manually install the 32 bit libraries to get this to work, but first we're going to need to figure out which ones to install.

Running:

ldd /path/to/quake4.x86

...(change "/path/to" to be the real path to the executable), should help us to identify those libraries.

EDIT: Got it. You need to install the 32-bit version of libsdl1.2debian like this:

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian:i386

Now, off to see what I can do about those pesky Strogg.

[garyzw]

Thanks Toz-- this was a simple fix

[garyzw]

Ok now i get no sound in Quake 4 any ideas?

Stange because Urban Terror and Return to Castle Wolfenstein all have sound

[Toz]

Hmmm, I have sound. Can you post back the results of:

ldd /path/to/quake4.x86

...where "/path/to" is the real path to quake4.x86 and the information displayed on the terminal window when you run quake4 from the terminal?

[garyzw]

This is what I get

gary@gary-LinuxPC:~$ ldd "/home/gary/Linux Games/Quake 4/quake4.x86"
    linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf7766000)
    libSDL-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0xf76b1000)
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7696000)
    libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0xf7690000)
    libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0xf755b000)
    libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 (0xf7548000)
    libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xf752e000)
    libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf7445000)
    libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0xf7401000)
    libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf73e4000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xf7230000)
    libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2 (0xf713a000)
    libpulse-simple.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpulse-simple.so.0 (0xf7135000)
    libpulse.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpulse.so.0 (0xf70e5000)
    libcaca.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcaca.so.0 (0xf7019000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7767000)
    libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0xf6ff8000)
    librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0xf6fef000)
    libpulsecommon-4.0.so => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-4.0.so (0xf6f7f000)
    libjson-c.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libjson-c.so.2 (0xf6f74000)
    libdbus-1.so.3 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3 (0xf6f29000)
    libslang.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libslang.so.2 (0xf6dfa000)
    libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xf6dc3000)
    libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xf6da0000)
    libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0xf6d9c000)
    libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf6d95000)
    libwrap.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libwrap.so.0 (0xf6d8b000)
    libsndfile.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsndfile.so.1 (0xf6d19000)
    libasyncns.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libasyncns.so.0 (0xf6d11000)
    libnsl.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnsl.so.1 (0xf6cf8000)
    libFLAC.so.8 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libFLAC.so.8 (0xf6cc4000)
    libvorbisenc.so.2 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libvorbisenc.so.2 (0xf6b4c000)
    libvorbis.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libvorbis.so.0 (0xf6b20000)
    libogg.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libogg.so.0 (0xf6b16000)
    libresolv.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0xf6aff000)

[Toz]

Looks good. Open a terminal window and run quake like this:

quake4 | tee quake4.log

After startup, quit and post back the contents of quake4.log.

[Toz]

And also, what does the following return:

apt-cache policy libasound2:i386