Running Binding of Isaac on 64-bit?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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?

Answer 2

Run this command:

sudo apt-get install libnss3:i386