Ubuntu: Immediate crash on startup (solved)

[green178]

I purchased Imperator: Rome today from the steam store and installed version 1.2.0 (Cicero). I'm running steam (API v019, package version 1570045470) on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS.


The Paradox Launcher window came up fine, but when I clicked "Play" the game crashed immediately.

When I tried manually running:

~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/ImperatorRome/binaries/imperator

I got this error:

/home/me/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/ImperatorRome/binaries/imperator: error while loading shared libraries: libc++abi.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

To fix this I ran:

$ sudo apt-get install -y libc++abi-dev

to install the libc++abi-dev package.

After this the game worked.

 

[JoeCool_52]

I am using the MATE flavor of Ubuntu (18.04.3), and I also had an immediate crash of Imperator (1.2.0) when clicking the "play" button from the launcher.

Installing this package solved the problem for me as well. Thanks turtle17!