Hi,

I want to point you on this error, if start.sh is started under 64-bit systems (possibly 32-bit, too, if SDL isn't installed already). If you click the desktop icon and nothing happens, open a terminal, locate your installation folder (probably ~/GOG Games/Ignition" and type "./start.sh". You will get this:

dosbox/dosbox_i686: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_sound-1.0.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This is strange, because the libs are shipped with the installer in {installation_folder}/dosbox/libs. But the start.sh is not aware of them.
To let dosbox get the libSDL path, it has to be aware of your system architecture. This procedure is done in the script file {installation_folder}/dosbox/dosbox. But it is never called from the start.sh, which directly launches the 32bit version executable without telling the libSDL path.

TLDR AND SOLUTION:
1. Edit {installation_path}/start.sh
2. Find this method:

# Actions
run_game() {
echo "Running ${GAME_NAME}"
export LC_ALL="C"
"dosbox/dosbox_i686" -conf "dosbox_igni.conf" -conf "dosbox_igni_single.conf" -no-console -c exit
}

3. Change the method to the following:
# Actions
run_game() {
echo "Running ${GAME_NAME}"
export LC_ALL="C"
"dosbox/dosbox" -conf "dosbox_igni.conf" -conf "dosbox_igni_single.conf" -no-console -c exit
}

4. Save and close.

5. Now the system architecture check gets done and you can play -Bleifuss Fun-, ehm, Ignition! :-)

Seems like the i386 variant of libpng 1.2 is not available for Ubuntu 16.10. I know 16.04 is the supported version of the OS, but any clean solutions anyone?

edit:

Well, had to download the i386 library from 16.04. http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/i386/libpng12-0/download

Hello friends.

After installing the dependencies I managed to get Dosbox to start a few seconds but the only thing it does is change the resolution to 640x480 and little else.

Any suggestions?

i5 4460
R9 280x
Ubuntu 18.04

I have the same issue on integrated graphics on a pentium n3700. Blank screen and a crash of dosbox that changes the resolution.
Editing the start.sh script to run the native dosbox executable solves it (although it's very slow on my system).

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libpng12-0:i386

PS: Current Ubuntu.

I can't get it to run either. I'm running Debian Bullseye (11) and am running into the same dependency issues with libpng.

I can manually download the older version from the ubuntu repository but can't install it. It errors out.
Building libpng12 manually seems to do nothing (same error of the missing libpng)
And running it in 64-bit dosbox crashes it.

What a bummer.

I get a similar message but with libFLAC.so.8 :/

edit: popOS here

OK, while testing it seems to have reverted back to libSDL_sound-1.0.so.1

Bummer indeed, and the window version has trouble running even on lowest rez...