Postal 2 doesn't work without Steam (on Linux)

[.-083]

A few months ago I could play Postal 2 on both Windows and Linux without running Steam... I haven't tried this on Windows after the last update, but on Linux I just get an error:

"POSTAL 2 Build Oct 6 2016 00:14:01

OS: antiX 17
CPU: AuthenticAMD Unknown processor @ 2294 MHz
Video: No Video
Level: None

Couldn't initialize SDL: Could not initialize UDEV


History: USDLClient::USDLClient <- UGameEngine::Init <- InitEngine"

Processor: AMD Turion M520 2300 MHz
Video: ATI HD 4200

P.S.2: I switched from MX-17 (based on antiX 16 64 bits, which is based on debian jessie) to antiX 17 (based on debian stretch 64 bits) before trying the latest update

[Running With Scissors [S]]

Try installing this package: sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

[.-083]

Thanks for the suggestion! I got this output:
"$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package ia32-libs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
lib32z1 lib32ncurses"

So I installed lib32z1 and lib32ncurses since it says they are a replacement, but I keep getting the same error message

[Running With Scissors [S]]

Ok, so that's basically an error saying you don't have a certain package. I'll try to dig up a different one, I've never used that distro myself but since it's running on Debian P2 should work just fine.

I'll get back to you in a bit.

[Running With Scissors [S]]

Install those packages:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core

sudo apt-get install xorg-dev

[.-083]

I thought you never replied... Until now that I checked this thread again and found your latest post

Thank you very much for your help RWS [S]

I've switched back to MX 16 after buying a new laptop capable of running it with decent performance, and fortunately I have no problems here with Postal 2... So I can't test your instructions because there is no problem to solve, haha

But I'm sure some people will eventually face the same problem I had if they choose certain linux distributions, and your post will be useful for them :)

Thank you very much!

[Running With Scissors [S]]

Originally posted by .-083:

I thought you never replied... Until now that I checked this thread again and found your latest post

Thank you very much for your help RWS [S]

I've switched back to MX 16 after buying a new laptop capable of running it with decent performance, and fortunately I have no problems here with Postal 2... So I can't test your instructions because there is no problem to solve, haha

But I'm sure some people will eventually face the same problem I had if they choose certain linux distributions, and your post will be useful for them :)

Thank you very much!

That's good to hear. It's always my pleasure :)

Enjoy the game!

[deathbuffer]

I found this via google, and I was able to solve this for my own game by installing the 32bit version of libudev:

sudo apt-get install libudev0:i386

[Running With Scissors [S]]

Originally posted by deathbuffer:

I found this via google, and I was able to solve this for my own game by installing the 32bit version of libudev:

sudo apt-get install libudev0:i386

Awesome. Thanks for posting this!