Issue Report: And Yet It Moves fails to launch

[Sentient Corpse Machine]

When I go to play And Yet It Moves (redeemed from a Humble Bundle key), I get a dialog saying "preparing to launch" and then nothing happens. If I go to ~/Steam/SteamApps/common/And Yet It Moves and run ./AndYetItMovesSteam.sh, it simply prints Library Missing: libsteam_api.so, even though that file present in the same directory.

Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.2.0-33-generic
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11103000

Any other info I can provide?

[johndrinkwater [🐧︀ 🎮]]

If you could close steam and run it again from a terminal and then try loading And Yet It Moves from inside steam, you should get useful feedback in the term. It’s likely a missing library on your system (if so, install!) otherwise please paste more here.

[Sentient Corpse Machine]

Ah, I needed libglu1-mesa:i386 and libjpeg62:i386. It would be nice for these errors to propagate up to the user without having to read console output. Better yet, each game should have a list of required packages (bonus points for automatically installing them) -- though I understand how difficult this is with different distros and packaging schemes.

It's not the best experience right now where you can install a game, but might not be able to play it and get no feedback as to why without doing some console jockeying.

That said, you fixed my issue -- thanks!

[JulFX]

Only libjpeg62 is needed on ubuntu 12.04 32 bit and Catalyst 12.06 (Radeon HD4800).

[Federico]

I had the same problem too. I moved the libsteam_api.so to the "lib" folder. Than I was missing the "libtiff4" library. So I moved the file back and install libtiff4. Now the game it's working.

[lerchie]

I am hitting something similar to this trying to run "As yet it moves" via steam on Fedora.

here is the output to the terminal:

../lib/AndYetItMoves: error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I am on a 64bit install, and have all the libtiff packages installed for both 32 and 64 bit arches.

[thatnerdyguy]

Similar problem on Kubuntu 12.10 x64. Relevant error message is:

Library Missing: libGLU.so.1

I have libglu installed, and the library is at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLU.so.1.

Turns out the game wants 32-bit libraries. Installing ia32-libs package solves the issue.

[[BIO] Gary]

Thanks for the info, thatnerdguy, I was having the same issues and installing the 32bit libs seemed to clear it up. It would be nice if they could stick that in a sticky somewhere as I expect there are quite a few 64bit users out there.

[Mogumbo]

I had the same problem on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. Found the solution by reading this forum. I copied libsteam_api.so to the "lib" folder, which allowed me to start the game on the command line and see the script complain about missing libraries. Then I installed libjpeg62:i386. Then everything worked.