IT DOESN'T EVEN RUN!!!

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Make sure the Postal Plus CD is in the drive you used to install it.

[Running With Scissors [S]]

Originally posted by tuxdelux:

Thanks again. No, have not played Postal on Steam before. (Played it a dozen years ago or so, but first time on Steam.) I tried uninstalling and downloading it again, just now, and I had the same result.

Well, I am sure the game is not supposed to be run from the command line, and I was not surprised to see the libSDL error. It is pretty common that Steam games do not have their library directories set correctly, when run outside of Steam. Sometimes, however, I can see some better error message when things are not running correctly.

... " libSDL2-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

I wish Steam would show some sort of error message, or some option for a debug mode.

Sorry for the delay. I'll jump into my Linux setup and try to figure out what's causing this.

[Running With Scissors [S]]

This seems to be an issue across the board, I tested this on my setup and am getting the same error, someone else just brought it up to me as well. We'll have to look into this.

[AlexeY]

Originally posted by RWS S:

This seems to be an issue across the board, I tested this on my setup and am getting the same error, someone else just brought it up to me as well. We'll have to look into this.

I'd like to add to this conversation too:

Fedora Workstation 26 x86_64.

The SDL2 missing problem was fixed once I installed SDL2-Devel.i686
However, from the play button in Steam as well as from the terminal via "./postal1" I get a series of messages about invalid paths mentioning:

CD, HD, VD, Sound, Game, Hoods.

The messages said I could change the directories in the POSTAL.INI file but so far my changes have not worked.

I tried pointing to the "res" folder where I found Hoods and Games but nothing.

Edit 1: Error codes A108, A105

[AlexeY]

Fixed. The game runs now. After installing SDL2-Devel.i686 I searched on Google for the codes finding a Windows 10 conversation.

Windows 10 Crash on startup

I deleted the POSTAL.INI file in "/home/<username>/.local/share/PostalPlus"

The game would not run still, so out of curiosity I opened it and it showed Ctrl-M characters all over the place with emacs (^M).

With a quick search on StackOverflow, a quick way to get rid of them in emacs is:
M-x replace-string C-q C-m RET RET

How to remove Ctrl-M in emacs [stackoverflow.com]

After this the game ran but I couldn't load the levels. I closed and opened again the ini file to find that it generated again the Ctrl-M characters.
So I again removed them and this time I could play.

[Lat]

We just pushed an update that should change the format of the .ini file on Linux, and resolve this mess. If the problem persists, delete the .ini file in "/home/<username>/.local/share/PostalPlus" and maybe try re-installing the game.

[tuxdelux]

Tried the update, and it did not fix.
Tried uninstalling and re-installing, and it did not fix.
Going to try the "remove the [^M]" dos linefeed characters, from above instructions..... [update] Well, it looks like the update changed the file so the [^M] dos linefeeds are already removed. I'm stumped!
Is it relevant that my directory is in ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/POSTAL1 and not PostalPlus ? ? Also, I noticed that the "steam_appid.txt" file also has a [^M] dos linefeed even after the update.

[AlexeY]

Originally posted by tuxdelux:

Tried the update, and it did not fix.
Tried uninstalling and re-installing, and it did not fix.
Going to try the "remove the [^M]" dos linefeed characters, from above instructions..... [update] Well, it looks like the update changed the file so the [^M] dos linefeeds are already removed. I'm stumped!
Is it relevant that my directory is in ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/POSTAL1 and not PostalPlus ? ?

Yeah, the one I changed was in "/home/<username>/.local/share/PostalPlus"
Did you checked the errors launching it via console?

[tuxdelux]

Yes, I am seeing the PostalPlus directory now. That file looks fine (no dos linefeeds).
Same libSDL error when running "postal1" from the command line.

For what it is worth, libSDL is installed:
libsdl2-2.0-0 is already the newest version (2.0.4+dfsg1-2ubuntu2).
If someone wants to tell me what the LD_LIBRARY_PATH command is for redirecting postal1 to the local libraries, I will run it, but I can never think of where that directory is located.

[tuxdelux]

OKAY, OKAY, I got it based on your suggestion. I did an uninstall, then I saw that the ~/.local/share/PostalPlus WAS NOT removed by the uninstall. I manually removed that directory, then I did a new install. BINGO. It's Postal Time.
Thanks so much for your help. I know my purchase was just two-bits, but I was really looking forward to playing again. You guys are awesome.

[Lat]

Originally posted by tuxdelux:

OKAY, OKAY, I got it based on your suggestion. I did an uninstall, then I saw that the ~/.local/share/PostalPlus WAS NOT removed by the uninstall. I manually removed that directory, then I did a new install. BINGO. It's Postal Time.
Thanks so much for your help. I know my purchase was just two-bits, but I was really looking forward to playing again. You guys are awesome.

Fantastic, glad to hear it!

Enjoy the game!

[Running With Scissors [S]]

Originally posted by tuxdelux:

OKAY, OKAY, I got it based on your suggestion. I did an uninstall, then I saw that the ~/.local/share/PostalPlus WAS NOT removed by the uninstall. I manually removed that directory, then I did a new install. BINGO. It's Postal Time.
Thanks so much for your help. I know my purchase was just two-bits, but I was really looking forward to playing again. You guys are awesome.

That's awesome. The one annoying thing about Steam is that it doesn't remove everything, it always leaves some leftovers which can cause issues when you reinstall the game.

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this crap wont run
im playing postal plus rn

[BE8]

So, if i try deleting POSTAL.INI, it doesn't give achivements or acces Steam Comunity. How can I make it work?