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0013517Dwarf FortressTechnical -- Generalpublic2026-06-20 09:54
Reporterurist92 Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityN/A
Status newResolutionopen 
PlatformLinux 
Product Version53.14 
Summary0013517: install difficulty
DescriptionApologies if this isn't the right place to ask about this, or if the fix is trivial and I'm just ignorant. I'm trying to play the version of new df that I downloaded from itch.io on Linux Mint 22.3. I downloaded dwarf_fortress_53_14_linux.tar.bz, which I then extracted, used the chmod command on the executable file dwarfort, but it doesn't open the game when I execute it. Can you recommend any steps? Thanks -- I'm a long time fan of the classic game!
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urist92

2026-06-20 09:54

reporter   ~0043241

Oh, and when trying to execute from the terminal as follows, this is what I input and the error I got:

user@elitebook:~/Downloads/df$ ./dwarfort

./dwarfort: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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