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Trouble Finding Your Linux Game Libraries?

Some Linux games, especially the older Linux games, are installed with the versions of libraries that they need. The problem arises when the specific libraries are unknown to your system and the game won't launch. The old Loki game installers attempted to fix this with some shell scripting. Maybe that works, maybe it doesn't. Here's an easy way to fix this problem. First, we use a kernel utility, ldd , to see what shared libraries the binary expects to see. $ ldd /full/patch/to/application/binary You will get a list of libraries needed and a clear indication of whether they are present or not. Trick #1 Assuming your system reports them missing, but you can see them in the directory where you installed the game, rather than fix the script that launches the game, we'll simply tell the system where to look. Become root , and change directory to /etc/ldd.so.conf.d. Once there, create a file, name_of_game.conf and in that file enter  /full/path/to/the