[SOLVED] MX-23.2 Linux, missing shared libraries

6502 · 03-06-2024, 04:38 PM

I have successfully installed wine. When trying to start =>

Heroes of Might & Magic II raises a message:

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error while loading shared libraries: libFLAC.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Is there any way to run the game without errors ?

rokytnji · 03-06-2024, 08:48 PM

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I have successfully installed wine.

How?

6502 · 03-06-2024, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by rokytnji

How?

Really it is not easy to choose which of many possible apps related to wine to install for achieving of a working wine I decide to install application Play on Linux (from section Games of MX Package Installer). I checked option 'Also install "Recommended" Packages'. Because Play on Linux needs an installed wine about self successful working it installed for me wine. I tested wine by playing another game - LODERUNNER the Legend Returns (Sierra) - it works!

enigma9o7 · 03-06-2024, 10:11 PM

For the missing library, find the package containing libFLAC.so.8 and install it, or something close and simlink it.

To find which package contains a file, use apt-file. If you don't have apt-file installed already, install it and update its database before using it to search.

Code:

sudo apt install apt-file  
sudo apt-file update
apt-file search libFLAC.so

Then install the appropriate package. If it doesn't find it, then its not in your distros repositories.

6502 · 03-06-2024, 10:19 PM

Code:

~
$ apt-file search libFLAC.so
libflac-dev: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libFLAC.so
libflac12: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libFLAC.so.12
libflac12: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libFLAC.so.12.0.0

enigma9o7 · 03-06-2024, 10:21 PM

So you have a much newer version available in your repo. You could install that (libflac12) and then create a simlink to it called libFLAC.so.8 and cross your fingers that 12 is backwards compatible with 8, it might be.

Code:

sudo apt install libflac12
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libFLAC.so.12 /path/to/your/game/libFLAC.so.8

6502 · 03-06-2024, 10:35 PM

enigma9o7, thanks!
Now HoMAM II works fine using just installed and copied to game path libFLAC.so.8