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I'm trying to run a game (PRIME, an old Rougelike found here) and after downloading the 64 bit linux version, and going to run it, I get this error response:

./prime: error while loading shared libraries: libsigsegv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Now, I've checked that I've got that file in my library, and it's up to date. The last time I asked this question I was able to solve it simply with a sudo-apt-update, sudo-apt-upgrade. That isn't working this time.

(The italicized note above is technically a mistake. I did have that file, but not the i386 version. Take a look at the accepted answer and my comments to see how we discovered that!)

My real item is this, though: Shared library problems are a pretty common error, it seems, and although the library in question changes, the other common issue is that the library exists, but for some reason the executable (or the user?) can't find it?

This is also not the first time I've had this issue on this system.

Is there a general solution or approach to shared library problems?

I came across this using ldconfig but I haven't been able to get it to work.

output of ldd ./prime in the directory with that executable

    linux-gate.so.1 (0xf7f03000)
libsigsegv.so.2 => not found
libnoteye.so => ./libnoteye.so (0xf7e4f000)
libncurses.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5 (0xf7e26000)
libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xf7e00000)
libpanel.so.5 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpanel.so.5 (0xf7df9000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf7c1b000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0xf7b16000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7af7000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xf7908000)
libSDL-1.2.so.0 => not found
libSDL_image-1.2.so.0 => not found
liblua5.1.so.0 => not found
libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0xf7901000)
libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 => not found
libSDL_net-1.2.so.0 => not found
libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 (0xf7894000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xf7876000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0xf7870000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f04000)
libGLdispatch.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGLdispatch.so.0 (0xf77f3000)
libGLX.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGLX.so.0 (0xf77b7000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0xf7666000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0xf7637000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0xf7631000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf7629000)
libbsd.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0xf760a000)
Jason Mehmel
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From ldd, it is clear that prime is a 32bit/i386 build. It requires dependencies from same architecture. We may confirm too using:

file ./prime

We search for each missing library file using apt-file (if installed, be aware it downloads large indexes) or https://packages.ubuntu.com for corresponding package then install it.

sudo apt install libsigsegv2:i386 \
libsdl1.2debian:i386 libsdl-image1.2:i386 liblua5.1-0:i386 \
libsdl-mixer1.2:i386 libsdl-net1.2:i386
user.dz
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For a so called 64-bit application prime needs a bunch i386 libaries. sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 afterwards sudo apt update

Make sure the not founding libaries are installed for 64-bit and 32-bit.

You can found the relevant packages with apt-file search missing file.

maybe you have to install it sudo apt install apt-file and sudo apt-file update

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How to use apt-file

nobody
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  • Doing the i386 add didn't work for me. Will try installing lib files bit by bit.

    Did you have to add a bunch of libraries to get it going?

    Also, the list from ldd shows lib files that are definitely installed. Which is what leads me to the main question. Is it that the executable isn't able to see it somehow?

    It isn't that I'm missing the lib files, it's that the program can't find them when it tries to run.

     – Jason Mehmel Nov 04 '20 at 17:05
  • Used apt-file to try to examine for the lib files. libsigsegv.so.2 was one I could find, but tried updating it anyway, no dice. – Jason Mehmel Nov 04 '20 at 17:22
  • did you have any missing libraries when you first tried to run this program? – Jason Mehmel Nov 04 '20 at 17:22
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    @JasonMehmel, no on ubuntu I had no multiarch and I get some stupied message file not found, when I try to start it. After adding multiarch, I started the game with strace and saw, it was querring 32-bit libs. file -l ./prime shows much old stuff so I started to install missing libs in 64-bit and 32-bit. – nobody Nov 04 '20 at 18:47
  • That lines up with the other answer we found! – Jason Mehmel Nov 05 '20 at 19:28