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Day of the tentacle on linux ubuntu

A topic by guillaume6363 created Sep 11, 2022 Views: 479 Replies: 8
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Hello

I have just purchased Dott on linux.

I use ubuntu 20.04 on 64 bits.

I am unable to launch Dott. Here are the messages:

(base) guillaume@newxps:~/Jeux/dott/dott_nonsteam$ ./Dott
bash: ./Dott: No such file or directory

(base) guillaume@newxps:~/Jeux/dott/dott_nonsteam$ ll

total 2677776

drwxr-xr-x 3 guillaume guillaume       4096 juil. 10  2016 ./

drwxrwxr-x 3 guillaume guillaume       4096 sept. 11 12:09 ../

-r--r--r-- 1 guillaume guillaume      29311 juil.  9  2016 controllerdef.txt

-rwxrwxr-x 1 guillaume guillaume   10364339 juil.  9  2016 Dott*

drwxrwxr-x 2 guillaume guillaume       4096 juil.  9  2016 lib/

-rw-rw-r-- 1 guillaume guillaume       9460 juil. 10  2016 readme.txt

-rw-rw-r-- 1 guillaume guillaume 2731610350 juil.  9  2016 tenta.cle


I guess this is linked to missing lib on my linux to be able to launch an ELF 32 bits on a 64-bit system


Any idea about how to fix it ?

Moderator (1 edit)

Hey there,

Is “Dott” the executable? I think what’s going on is that you need to make the file executable for everyone.

I’m sure if that would solve it, but try running

chmod +x Dott

in the same directory, and then

./Dott

and see if that solves it.

As you may see in my message. Dott is already 775.

Tried it though but with the same result. 

Moderator

I've seen that error message when the executable is for a different CPU architecture. But why ask here and not in the game's own community?

I guess because I bought it from itch.io. And thought to find people with the same issue.

Packaging seems to differ on other platforms such as gog.com

Moderator (1 edit)

Right, I mean in the game's community right here on itch.io; this isn't the game's community, and it's the wrong place to ask for support with a game. It says as much in the rules of this category.

Never mind, I see they don't even have comments enabled on the game page. You could have said as much, or at least given a link. It's still best to ask the game's creators, they seem to have Twitter accounts and a Discord server.

(Also, I just saw you checked.) Since the executable is 32-bit, it will take more than installing a library to run it, unless your system is already set up for it. Are you able to run other apps like that?

(+1)

Yes I have seen some people making it work with arch ubuntu using chroot environment.

I will try that next week-end and if I succeed I will post instructions in this post. Might be helpful for others.

My guess is that Dott is a dangling symbolic link.

oh no it is not.

$ file Dott

Dott: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.24, BuildID[sha1]=f9c69cc5e7dedf221361c3e118c1cf3320448539, not stripped

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