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pixman

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Registered: 2015-12-18

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The Dark Mod - Can't play because of missing library

Hello folks,

You may know the recreation / remake of the game Thief, there is a complete engine remake named 'The Dark Mod'. It is pretty popular and available for all platforms.

I can't start it after installation with the tdm_updater because of the missing libpng12 lib:

[michael@media darkmod]$ ./thedarkmod.x86
./thedarkmod.x86: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried this PKGBUILD, but it has missing dependencies: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … 2-libpng12

What can I do?

Thanks for any help!

regards,
Pix

Rasi

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Registered: 2007-08-14

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Re: The Dark Mod - Can't play because of missing library

it's in repositories...

multilib/lib32-libpng

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: The Dark Mod - Can't play because of missing library

Post the error messages you get while trying to execute the PKGBUILD, I'm inclined to think that the PKGBUILD doesn't miss dependencies but you do (base-devel and multilib-devel are implicitly assumed with AUR packages). I suggest you read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg

@rasi libpng12 is the keyword here.

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Scimmia

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Re: The Dark Mod - Can't play because of missing library

It doesn't have missing dependencies. If it's deps are in the AUR, you have to build and install those first.

Also see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multilib

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Rumor

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Re: The Dark Mod - Can't play because of missing library

The Dark Mod is a lot of fun. Assuming you've resolved the issue with the missing library, let me make sure you're aware of the community at: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/

Several of the fan made missions are very, very good.

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Rasi

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Re: The Dark Mod - Can't play because of missing library

Post the error messages you get while trying to execute the PKGBUILD, I'm inclined to think that the PKGBUILD doesn't miss dependencies but you do (base-devel and multilib-devel are implicitly assumed with AUR packages). I suggest you read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg

@rasi libpng12 is the keyword here.

ouch. somehow my blind eyes automatically inserted the 12 part...

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ChrisG

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Re: The Dark Mod - Can't play because of missing library

You probably just need the 32 library installed as Rasi said. You can get that error when you try and run a 32 bit app on a 64 bit system.

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: The Dark Mod - Can't play because of missing library

libpng in repos is version 16 , Dark Mod needs version 12 which is in the aur.

pixman, check https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-libpng12/
you will have to build that yourself with makepkg and then install it with pacman -U .
If you don't know how to do that, check the AUR wiki page.

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