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Mar 25, 2023
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Description
Doesn't launch on (reasonably up to date) Linux.


Linux


Steam

What is your game version?
1011166

What DLC do you have installed?
Space Race, Green Planet, Project Laika

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
In its current state on what I would assume to be many GNU/Linux based operating systems, the game will not launch, and displays this error in the terminal:

./MarsSteam: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

We can see the game does not launch due to using an old version of libssl (current versions are 1.1 and 3 to the best of my knowledge). This could likely be fixed either by making sure it stays up to date, or by packaging your own version of the library with the game to ensure it always has the version it needs.

For some users fixing this is as simple as installing the older version from their package repositories. For Arch users, they can install the AUR package "openssl-1.0-hardened" (or possibly "openssl-1.0" but at the time of posting this package does not build successfully).

For other distributions this may not be possible however, requiring them to hunt down the binary themselves (which may or may not work, and requires above average skills/knowledge of the system in my opinion).

Can you replicate the issue?



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Doing a little research, it looks like installing this package actually takes even more effort on Ubuntu which is a rather popular distribution with many more based on it. It requires the user to setup their package manager to install packages from the Ubuntu 2018 repositories. So if libssl 1.0.0 is really desired by the devs, I do recommend packaging the library with the game itself.
 
The game has not been updated for a year now, and I have no indication if/when any further updates are planned.

Given that the minimum requirement is Ubuntu 16.04 x64 I guess this is likely to keep happening as Ubuntu gets further new versions!