t-engine executable won't run

[Frozenfire]

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sudo ln -sf /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0

Just wanted to post that I had to do this aswell and it worked with

ToME 1.25
Ubuntu 14.04 x64 Fully updated (February 2015)

If you aren't too linux / command line savvy all that is needed

- Extract ToME
- Open terminal, paste and run the above command
- Open game by double clicking t-engine wherever you extracted

Good luck!

[spottedshroom]

As far as I can tell, the "real" fix for this should be to offer builds against libudev1 as well as libudev0. Personally, I was afraid of ABI compatibility between the two, so instead of symlinking from one to the other, I built a back-ported libudev0 for Ubuntu 14.10.

Come to think of it, probably including an official libudev0 package for recent Ubuntu releases is the real right fix, but that's out of our control.

[darkgod]

Sadly yes :/

Next release will be linked again libudev1; whcih only switches the problem around but heh :/
(and symlinking does work)

[Nussbaum]

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.

Another, safer but easy solution:

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:

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cp /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 /home/user/Desktop/t-engine4-linux64-1.2.5/lib64/ && cd /home/user/Desktop/t-engine4-linux64-1.2.5/lib64/ && mv libudev.so.1 libudev.so.0

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!

On 32-bit, the directory with libudev.so.1 is apparently /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ instead of /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/