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When launching from the main menu, nothing happens, so I went into the game directory and ran it from the terminal and got this error: "./launcher.bin.x86: error while loading shared libraries: libXft.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".
I did a quick "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libXft.so.2 and it couldn't find any such package, so i assumed that maybe it was a library that was installed during install of the game, so i reinstalled the game, and received the same error and issue.
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I suppose you are using a 64-bit version of Ubuntu.
Since the Linux version of the game comes with a 32-bit executable, you need to install the 32-bit version of some libraries. According to the game's system requirements these libraries are: ibc6:i386, libasound2:i386, libasound2-data:i386, libasound2-plugins:i386, libsdl2-2.0-0:i386, libfltk1.3:i386 and their dependencies which your system should automatically install.
In particular, libfltk1.3 should depend on libxft2 and this package should install the library libXft.so.2.

If I'm not mistaken (I'm not familiar with Ubuntu anymore, as I'm currently using Arch Linux), these are the commands you need to issue to get all the needed libraries:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install ibc6:i386 libasound2:i386 libasound2-data:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386
sudo apt-get -y install libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 libfltk1.3:i386
Once you have installed these packages, you can try to run the game.


Another solution for your problem is here: basically you can download some scripts from here and follow the instructions to make a deb package out from the game's installer. Installing this package should already resolve any dependency by itself.
Post edited January 14, 2018 by dr.schliemann
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Tethtibis: When launching from the main menu, nothing happens, so I went into the game directory and ran it from the terminal and got this error: "./launcher.bin.x86: error while loading shared libraries: libXft.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".
I did a quick "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libXft.so.2 and it couldn't find any such package, so i assumed that maybe it was a library that was installed during install of the game, so i reinstalled the game, and received the same error and issue.
And if any openSUSE fans are reading this, simply run the following:

sudo zypper in libXft2-32bit