ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I cannot run (downloaded from website) t-engine on Xubuntu 14.04.01 64-bit, because libudev.so.0 is missing.

Workaround on 64-bit:

copy libudev.so.1 from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ to the lib64 directory in your t-engine directory and rename the copy to libudev.so.0. In my case, the t-engine directory is:

/home/user/Desktop/t-engine4-linux64-1.2.5/

So, in my case, I just type this into terminal:
It makes a copy of libudev.so.1 file to t-engine directory and renames the copy in t-engine directory to libudev.so.0. I don't know what libudev.so.x is but it seems libudev.so.1 substitutes libudev.so.0 as long as you rename it to libudev.so.0 to "fool" t-engine to think it is the missing libudev.so.0 by renaming it.

And I can execute t-engine successfully!

Apparently symlinking libudev.so.1 to libudev.so.0 (which also does the trick) is considered controversial and possibly could cause other programs not to work, so this would be a better solution(?)

This same issue is being discussed over at http://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=42678. I'm afraid that the symlink solution is controversial for the same reason making a copy of the file is - the fact that libudev0 and libudev1 aren't guaranteed to be binary compatible.

I ended up building a custom libudev0 package since recent Ubuntu releases don't come with it. Evidently you can also delete the libcef.so file from the game's lib directory, which will disable the in-game web browser but allow it to start.

Mind checking the beta here: http://te4.org/beta-test please ?

darkgod wrote:Mind checking the beta here: http://te4.org/beta-test please ?

Yes, works perfectly on stock Ubuntu 14.10. Thanks!

Symlinking affects other programs using libudev.so.0 as well (and libudev.so.0 is not libudev.so.1 even though it's similar enough to make ToME work with it). Making a renamed copy into the specific ToME folder doesn't, as far as I know, so it's better to make a renamed copy. That's what my Gentoo-using programmer friend told me at least.