Thus forum isn't free support for gog. If you bought it from there you should get support from there. It's likely you wouldn't be the only one with the issue and they may already know the solution for the missing dependency which would be to use a build of dosbox provided by the repo for your distribution or to install the missing dependency for the build you are trying to use.

I AM looking for a source for the missing dependency.

That isn't a regular dependency for DOSBox, it seems to be something specific to the build supplied by GoG so take it up with them.

Ok. Thanks.. That was a bit of information I needed to know.
It is interesting though that I have the same game downloaded from GOG on a Win 7 Ultimate machine and a Win 11 Pro and that dependency is not in either of them so If it is a GOG issue, it is specific to what they are offering for Linux.

So far I am getting crickets on the GOG support forum.

> GOG support forum

Ah, there's your problem. Their forums are discussion forums, and clearly labelled as such; any support still happening there is purely coincidental. The support section's thataway.

Another approach would be to ignore their bundles DOSbox version (do keep their config files though), install one through your package manager and use that. I doubt they invest a lot of manpower into customizing the code of the app itself so you should be fine. Of course you're on your own then wrt support.

Ok. Thanks for the ideas.

I cannot get through the GOG support maze because I am not actually using a Ubuntu distro. I am using Debian 10 Buster.

I am going to keep looking for libcaca.so.0: and paste it in where it is supposed to be.

This problem has been cropping up with other GOG games and also some Steam games.

Or just wait till GOG does an update.

I just stopped by to say that libcaca.so.O is a super funny name.

Rather disgusting... He intentionally named it like that.. in fact his github account is all about the same.. well.. smelly thing. 🤢

So when you try to use

sudo apt-get install libcaca0
(note the last letter is a zero)

the libcaca.so.0 doesn't work?

dougdahl wrote on 2023-04-29, 07:28:

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So when you try to use

sudo apt-get install libcaca0
(note the last letter is a zero)

the libcaca.so.0 doesn't work?

I am not a linux aficionado so I had no idea I could even do such a thing. Will give it a try.

cyclone3d wrote on 2023-04-29, 02:13:

I just stopped by to say that libcaca.so.O is a super funny name.

To clarify the joke, "caca" means poop in French. It's a bit immature 😀

Poop jokes are acceptable, even well received, but when somebody names his code "libupskirt" then there's a shitstorm? Okay.

wbahnassi wrote on 2023-04-29, 03:09:

Rather disgusting... He intentionally named it like that.. in fact his github account is all about the same.. well.. smelly thing. 🤢

His who??

cde wrote on 2023-04-29, 14:10:

cyclone3d wrote on 2023-04-29, 02:13:

I just stopped by to say that libcaca.so.O is a super funny name.

To clarify the joke, "caca" means poop in French. It's a bit immature 😀

I may not know anything about Linux, but I got the joke as soon as a saw it.

texashuman wrote on 2023-04-29, 14:59:

His who??

Maker of that lib. It's a code library for colored ascii art generation.

elszgensa wrote on 2023-04-29, 14:17:

Poop jokes are acceptable, even well received, but when somebody names his code "libupskirt" then there's a shitstorm? Okay.

funny waste euphemisms != sexual harrassment

dougdahl wrote on 2023-04-29, 07:28:

So when you try to use […]
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So when you try to use

sudo apt-get install libcaca0
(note the last letter is a zero)

the libcaca.so.0 doesn't work?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HjF7p_o8Q_qe … ?usp=share_link

Didn't work.

texashuman wrote on 2023-05-13, 20:05:

dougdahl wrote on 2023-04-29, 07:28:

So when you try to use […]
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So when you try to use

sudo apt-get install libcaca0
(note the last letter is a zero)

the libcaca.so.0 doesn't work?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HjF7p_o8Q_qe … ?usp=share_link

Didn't work.

You need to run apt-get not get-apt.