Help me to make running it on Linux, please

Namal · 2015-03-15T18:40:20.000Z

Hello, since I hang up most of the time on my linux installation I wanted to have to have DDA here too. I don’t want the github clone because (I assume ) it is the tile version, but I 'd like to have the console version. I tried to download it and run bh cataclysm-launcher and just ./launcher and I always get the error

error while loading shared libraries: liblua5.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

no matter what I do. I tried several libraries now.

This is my system

Linux xu64 3.13.0-46-generic #79-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 10 20:06:50 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Please help.

kevin.granade · 2015-03-15T23:43:58.000Z

One, the launcher is really there for mac users, on linux ./cataclysm from the cataclysm directory should do it.
This doesn’t have anything to do with your problem, just a FYI.

Two, take a look at your /usr/lib directory, the lua library might just be named differently. If you have something along the lines of liblua-5.2.so in there, do:

cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s liblua-5.2.so liblua5.2.so.0

What this does is create a symbolic link from the file the game is expecting (liblua5.2.so.0) to the file that exists on your system so that the game can find it.

Namal · 2015-03-16T02:12:29.000Z

didn’t help, I still have same error

Namal · 2015-03-17T08:29:38.000Z

Hello, now I did a search for that file and it is in

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.2.so.0

so it is definetelly there, but game still won’t start, any help?

burgerpro · 2015-03-21T08:07:54.000Z

I second this. Came there to create a similar thread. Liblua 5.2 installed, x86_64. I remember there was a similar issue several versions ago but it was related to some not having 64 bit version. I have it.

Interesting note: after creating a symbolic link /usr/lib/liblua5.2.so.0 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.2.so.0 the error message changes to:

Does it mean I have to install a second x32 version of liblua5.2 ?

Edit:
I did

, and cataclysm started working. But could you please make it use the normal x86_64 libraries? It shouldn’t be hard, at least 0.B used to work pretty well on x86_64 version of the liblua.

kevin.granade · 2015-03-21T08:14:15.000Z

Ah, yes it looks like a 32 vs 64 bit thing, you either need 32 bit liblua, or install the 64 bit version from http://ci.narc.ro/job/Cataclysm-Matrix/Graphics=Curses,Platform=Linux_x64/lastBuild/
or build yourself in 64-bit. I’ll take a look at releasing a 64 bit version in the future.

burgerpro · 2015-03-21T09:12:37.000Z

Ok to sum it up, you can do it in two ways:

1)Either do

on .deb based distros: Ubuntu/Mint/Debian

on .rpm based ones: Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS

or anything that will install i386 version of liblua5.2

2)Or go to here and get the latest tarball.

Maybe its just me being dumb but I cannot figure out how to download the archive from Kevin’s link.

kevin.granade · 2015-03-21T14:59:13.000Z

Crap, sorry, I gave you a bad link, I forgot narc moved the downloads to a different server, it was causing problems because of some combination of the jenkins server having too much load from downloads and having its filesystem fill up with all the builds.

Namal · 2015-03-30T07:30:09.000Z

[quote author=burgerpro link=topic=9818.msg227663#msg227663 date=1426929157]
Ok to sum it up, you can do it in two ways:

1)Either do

on .deb based distros: Ubuntu/Mint/Debian

yeah, I tried that and now I get another error.

jcd · 2015-03-31T09:57:01.000Z

i would suggest compiling it yourself.
it will only take ~30 mins in a reasonably old machine (mine takes 20’ and is 5+ yrs old), and is as simple as running:

or

or whatever else you need, from within the top source directory.