I am trying to play the Linux version of Bean’s Quest purchased from the Humble Store. I extracted the tar file but I get the following error when trying to run the game:

error while loading shared libraries: libXrandr.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

Is there a way to resolve this dependency?

I also tried installing the Windows .msi version as a non steam game but the msi just exits when I open it and proton is greyed out when trying to select it.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

  • FubarberryM
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    1 year ago

    For the windows .msi version, you might try installing it on a windows computer and then copy the install directory over to the deck. Then you can add the executable to steam as a non-steam game, and force proton through the “force compatibility tool” menu.

    I believe the libXrandr.so.2 library can normally be installed on Arch by installing the libxrandr package, but I’m not sure how to install that on SteamOS without unlocking the filesystem.

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      1 year ago

      Installing the msi to a windows machine, copying the files and running the executable with proton did the trick! Thank you so much!

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    1 year ago

    For Arch/Manjaro/SteamOS :
    sudo pacman -Syu libxrandr

    For Debian/Ubuntu :
    sudo apt-get install libxrandr2

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, but with steamOS being immutable you can’t install stuff from pacman without unlocking it first.

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        1 year ago

        True. But the only other way I can think of is to extract the Arch packages and add the libs too $LD_LIBRARY_PATH , which might end up being more trouble than it’s worth because you’d likely need the libraries from libxrandr’s dependencies as well. For example adding

        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/foo/lib:/home/myself/lib
        

        to .bashrc

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          1 year ago

          I haven’t messed around with it much, but I wonder if you could use an overlay like rwfus to install the libs.

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            Apon your referral, I’ve read the source files for rwfus.
            I believe it would work, however I’d highly recommend against it. If you do try it, use it with the utmost care. It has some flaws; I mean if the warning in README.md wasn’t obvious enough, lol.