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This is a re-post of a question I've put here to no avail. I've been using Ubuntu for quite a while now, but my knowledge is limited. Please bear with me! :)

This issue revolves around the recent removal of ia32-libs in Ubuntu 13.10, and the game Binding of Isaac which depends on it -

I recently purchased the game as part of the Humble Bundle, excited that it is now available for Linux. However I have been unable to run either the 64 or 32 bit versions on my Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit system.

I cannot install the 64 bit version, as it depends on the ia32-libs package, which was removed in 13.10.

I am able to install the 32 bit version after installing all dependencies separately, but when starting the game I get the errors "libssl3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory", "Error: initialising plugin." and "Error: initialising projector". I presume these all come when the game tries to load libraries that aren't there.

Both of the above instances occur when trying to install the game via a .deb file.

When I say "installing all dependencies", I mean installing every package listed as a dependency in the info attached to the .deb file.

Has anybody got any ideas about this?

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  • Are you missing libnss3:i386 in the list of packages you've installed? – dobey Nov 29 '13 at 02:13
  • this got me a step further, I get a window and no error messages. But the window freezes and shows nothing. Starting to think this is too deep an issue for me to fix? – oli Dec 05 '13 at 23:42

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It looks like the easy way of downloading all of the 32 dependencies was taken out by the developers. Now if a application from the repo needs 32 libs it installs them automatically as it needs them. Apparently this leaves applications that are installed from .deb files in a world of dependency hell. You'll have to figure out the packages you need and install them yourself; one at a fricken time.

You can do this from the terminal with apt-get and :i386 on the end.

example: sudo apt-get install libmpg123-0:i386

You can read more about it here: How do you run a 32-bit program on a 64-bit version of Ubuntu?

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  • thanks, I'll try this tomorrow. What does this do exactly? Install the 32-bit version of all packages in the future? – oli Nov 29 '13 at 00:18
  • That is not required since 12.04. Ubuntu is MultiArch capable already, and one can install i386 packages by installing package:i386 with apt-get. Also, this isn't an answer, but should be a comment on the question, as it asks to try something, rather than provide a specific answer to the problem. – dobey Nov 29 '13 at 02:13
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Run this command:

sudo apt-get install libnss3:i386
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  • please give some explanation as to why one would run the command. and on a side note, Ubuntu 13.10 is not supported anymore. – astrob0t Nov 26 '14 at 14:21