Problem starting dmengine on Ubuntu - missing libopenal.so (SOLVED)

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#1

I have set up Ubuntu 18.04 using crouton on my chromebook, I then set up Defold using the install manual on the site. When I ran Defold and started up the first tutorial, Side scroller tutorial, I believe that something when wrong with setting up the dmengine.

Here is the error message: /home/brody/.Defold/unpack/0bca0e3b159cb482c0956befa872c259ede800bd/x86_64-linux/bin/dmengine: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I will try to provide as much information as I can, but I’m very new to linux and programming in general.

#2

Why doesn’t my Defold game start when I try to run it on Linux?

A: Check the console output in the editor. If you get the following message:

dmengine: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

then you need to install libopenal1 . The package name varies between distributions, and in some cases you might have to install the openal and openal-dev or openal-devel packages.

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#3

Any idea how I might accomplish that? Would I have to use the terminal to do that?

#4

Probably:

apt-get install libopenal-dev

or if you don’t have the permission by using sudo

sudo apt-get install libopenal-dev

Yes

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#5

Thank you very much!

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#6

Big thaaaaanks i searched for solwing a while but now when i use this command it works!

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