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Dec 7 2011 Anchor

I've been using Desura for a while and somehow i can't use it no more. It just don't load anymore. I use it on a Ubuntu 11.10 32bit version. I tried to use the Desura force upgrade and nothing happened.

Dec 8 2011 Anchor

I think the easiest thing to do is just delete everything inside your Desura folder except for "common". After that, download the desura binary and run it inside your existing Desura folder. If you keep the common folder like this, you won't have to re-download all of your game data. You might have to verify them though.

Dec 8 2011 Anchor

I tried your tip and reinstall too. I still can't make it work

Dec 9 2011 Anchor

If you run Desura from the terminal, can you post the output here?

Dec 9 2011 Anchor

:~/Downloads/desura$ ./desura
include/SharedObjectLoader.h:75 - Error loading library libuicore.so: '/home/gustavo/Downloads/desura/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: version `OPENSSL_0.9.8' not found (required by /home/gustavo/Downloads/desura/lib/libcurl_desura.so.4)' [LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/gustavo/Downloads/desura/lib]

Dec 10 2011 Anchor

On my system, libcrypto.so.0.9.8 is just a link to the system version. It looks like you don't have openssl installed, which is usually installed by default on most Linux distributions. I would load up Ubuntu Software Center, and make sure "SSL shared libraries" is installed. The package name should be libssl1.0.0 on Ubunto 11.10. Afternatively, open up a termal and do: sudo apt-get install libssl1.0.0

Dec 10 2011 Anchor

But i checked and i have libssl1.0.0 on my system

Dec 12 2011 Anchor

I wish I could offer more advice,
but the only other thing I can suggest is putting a copy of your libcrypto.so.0.9.8 file directly into the /desura/lib/ directory.
That way Desura should try to load it from there, instead of following the link.

Maybe somebody else can chime in with more advice.

Dec 17 2011 Anchor

sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8 solved my problem

Dec 17 2011 Anchor

Awesome, glad you got it working.

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