error while loading shared libraries libSDL-1.2.so.0

Question

I am trying to install ioquake on my ubuntu server.

When I try to run it, I get this message:

# ./ioquake3
./ioquake3.x86_64: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I thought I had everything working right, here is where the libSDL is:

# cd /usr/lib64
# /usr/lib64# ls -l
total 2308
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      15 Oct 15 00:25 libSDL-1.1.so.0 -> libSDL-1.2.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      20 Oct 15 00:25 libSDL-1.2.so.0 -> libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2358903 Jan 19  2012 libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.4

And my path:

# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib64

What am I doing wrong?

score 30 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '14 at 07:10

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This worked for me:

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian:i386

answered Jul 18 '14 at 07:10

Joril

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score 16 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 17 '13 at 02:39

16

Try the following in terminal:

sudo apt-get update

followed by

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

Post any error messages you might see

edited Sep 17 '13 at 02:39

kiri

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answered Sep 16 '13 at 21:22

Anonymous

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score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 18 '14 at 20:21

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I know this is a year late. But this should fix it:

dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian

The problem is that you are running a program compiled for a 32 bit architecture with 64 bit libraries.

edited Feb 18 '14 at 20:21

Eric Carvalho

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answered Feb 18 '14 at 19:54

Douther

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score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 22 '17 at 07:47

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sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev

edited Mar 22 '17 at 07:47

Zanna

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answered Mar 22 '17 at 07:36

jagadeesh

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score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Mar 17 '20 at 16:35

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No one else's answer solved this for me. This did though:

$ sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libopenal1 libsndfile1 libncursesw5

Something to do with 64 bit dependencies not being installed due to 32 bit libraries, I'm not sure.

edited Mar 17 '20 at 16:35

answered Mar 17 '20 at 10:25

Shardj

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score 0 · Answer 6 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

0

This question is still relevant to Ubuntu 14.04 for old but still in use programs such as GCCG (Generic Collectible Card Game).

There are two very large answers on the subject:

edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

Community

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answered Jan 06 '16 at 17:56

Paul

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