Fixing Library Problems
When Running Baldur's Gate on Ubuntu Linux
After fixing an aggravating problem in getting Baldur's Gate 1) to run on Fedora Linux, I tried to do the same on a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04. The first problem I ran into was - after running start.sh
- a message stating that ./BaldursGate
was not found. You can fix this problem by installing wine
.
$ sudo apt install wine
The second problem was a message stating: Unable to locate package libjson-cs.i386
.
Likely, you already have the 64-bit library installed, but since Baldur's Gate is a 32-bit game, it requires a 32-bit library. Solve this problem by running:
$ sudo apt install libjson0:i386
Update for Ubuntu 18.04
It seems that the libjson0:i386
package is no longer present in the 18.04 repositories. Fixing this problem is now similar to how I fixed it on Fedora. First, download the 32-bit library:
sudo apt install libjson-c-dev:i386
Next, open a Terminal and navigate to /lib/i386-linux-gnu/. Now create a symbolic link to libjson-c.so.3
.
sudo ln -s libjson-c.so.3 libjson.so.0
When you run start.sh
again, you may get an error about a missing libssl
library.
./BaldursGate: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
To fix this, install the 32-bit version of the library files:
sudo apt install libssl1.0.0:i386
And now the game runs properly.
Update for Ubuntu 20.04
Edit the source list:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
to add the following line:
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main
Then…
sudo apt update && sudo apt install libssl1.0.0