GitHub: Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP - does not start due to missing libraries (with fix)

[paol]

I'm leaving this here to help if anyone has the same problem. On my 64bit Ubuntu system the game didn't launch due to missing 32bit libraries. The following command installs the missing packages:

sudo apt-get install libcurl3:i386 libglu1-mesa:i386

Note: to diagnose this kind of problem look for lines like this in the Steam console output:

./swordandsworcery_pc: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[Recoil_84]

Thanks for the helpful post! Same issue occurred for me on 64-bit Fedora x64. Installing the 32bit library solved it.

sudo yum install libcurl.i686

[Max Power]

Thanks for the fix!

[Batousay]

Thanks!.

It worked like a charm!.

[Samus]

Thanks! I had the same issue on Linux Mint 13 (Maya) cinnamon x64. Now it starts up fine.

FTW

sudo apt-get install libcurl3:i386 libglu1-mesa:i386

[neeps]

Thank you, this helped me :)

[kmh42]

Thx for fix.
Works great on elementaryOS luna beta

[PSeeCO]

Thank you so much, it worked!

[capt. exe]

Did anyone manage to fix the same problem in Arch Linux?

[johndrinkwater]

Github has a report for the libcurl issue now, https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/251

[johndrinkwater]

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/439 is for libglu, but that is more likely the graphics drivers missing the library rather than the game

[BI LI]

Автор сообщения: capt. exe

Did anyone manage to fix the same problem in Arch Linux?

Here I have some 32bit libs installed:
lib32-curl
lib32-alsa-plugins
lib32-libpulse

All these were mentioned when I searched about issues with Superbrothers. Some reported that lib32-glu is also needed, but here it's not installed and the game is running well (so far).

To install one of these libs (e.g. lib32-libpulse):
* Enable the multilib repository
* Update the package list typing "sudo pacman -Syy" on a terminal
* Install the lib typing "sudo pacman -S lib32-libpulse" on a terminal

The first two itens you only need to do one time. Once they are done, you can install all packages mentioned in this post.

Check the ArchWiki if you run into more issues and good luck!