The Count Lucanor

The Count Lucanor

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[BUG] Linux native version not launching in Debian 12 - libva.so.1
After installing the game, trying to launch the native version does nothing, at least in Debian 12 (I have not teste other distros).

First of all we are going to open a terminal in the game path.

If you are using a standard Steam installation open a terminal and change to the following directory:
cd ~/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/The\ Count\ Lucanor/

If you are not using Debian or do not use the standard installation directory:

Right click in the game -> One of the options should show a "Browse local files" sub option Once you are brosing the game files open a terminal: Right click in the game folder -> Open a terminal here.

Launching the game,
sh lucanor.sh
, ends with the following error message:
error while loading shared libraries: libva.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

If we list the content of the directory,
ls -hl
, we see that libva.so.1 is a symlink to
./lib/libva.so.1
, the
libva.so.1
library that is inside the
lib
directory in the same game directory, but looking there we find that there is not any
libva.so.1
file.

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If your problem is not the lack of this library stop reading here.
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The solution is to copy the library that we can find in our system into the game's
lib
directory. In my case I found that
whereis libva.so.*
shows that there is a
libva.so.2
library in the
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
directory, so I copyed it to the
lib
directory that we can find inside the game's directory:
cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libva.so.2 lib/libva.so.1

And changed the permissions of the newly aded library:
chmod 755 lib/libva.so.1

The game should now launch normally.


If any of the developers, packagers or the responsibles of distributing the game is reading this, the libva.so.1 library should be distributed with the game, inside the correct directory.
Last edited by Lord Condemort; 2 Aug, 2023 @ 11:46am