Shared Library Error – How to Resolve ‘Cannot Open Shared Object File libudev.so.0’ Error

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Trying to run Game Dev Tycoon on Ubuntu 64. It asks for the above object.

I ran sudo apt-get install libudev1:i386 and it came back already installed.

I have /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 but no libudev.so.0 anywhere.

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For 64-bit Ubuntu, it is in the 32-bit libudev0 package.

You can install that with the following command:

sudo apt-get install libudev0:i386

This package was removed from Ubuntu in 14.04. You will need to install it from an older version.

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