SCUMM game not starting, libssh.so.4 missing

[1player]

Tried running Riven from GOG. Doesn't start, log shows:

Started initial process 198 from gamemoderun /var/home/sph/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/bin/scummvm --extrapath=/var/home/sph/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/share/scummvm --themepath=/var/home/sph/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/share/scummvm --aspect-ratio --fullscreen --gfx-mode=3x --path=/var/home/sph/Games/gog/riven-the-sequel-to-myst --language=en --filtering mohawk:riven
Start monitoring process.
/var/home/sph/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/bin/scummvm: error while loading shared libraries: libssh.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 32512)
All processes have quit
Exit with return code 32512

[jibsaramnim]

Can confirm I'm experiencing the same thing, on Fedora 38 Silverblue.

[bkilinc]

Myst Masterpiece edition does not run because of this issue on Linux Mint 21

[mavorg]

The Curse of Monkey Island, GOG version:

scummvm: error while loading shared libraries: libssh.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 32512)

[cloudrac3r]

Here's a temporary workaround: Download libssh.so.4 and put it into your ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/lib/ folder next to the other .so files.

Or if you don't want to download executable code from my website, get the file from the Fedora packages like this:

• Go to the libssh package
• Click the blue link in the table next to Fedora 38
• Click on the View Build link near the top
• Download the x86_64 rpm package
• Open it in an unarchiver program
• Extract usr/lib64/libssh.so.4.9.6
• Rename to libssh.so.4
• Put it in ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/lib/ next to the other .so files.

This lets ScummVM games boot in Flatpak Lutris on my computer. Of course, it would be nice if this dependency was either removed or bundled with the official Flatpak.

[irisdominguez]

Hi! Another one wiht the same issues. Trying what @cloudrac3r got over the issue with that library, but then it failed for a different library.

While checking, I found a really weird workaround:

1. Remove all the libraries inside the lutris scummvm runner: rm -r ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/lib
2. Install scummvm in your system: sudo apt install scummvm. Not going to use it, but this way we know that the required libraries are in the system.
3. Soft link to the system libraries: ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/lib
4. The runner still fails from within lutris, with the same issue in the logs. But on the first line of the logs you can see the command that it is supposedly running... and it actually works from terminal!!! ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/bin/scummvm --extrapath=~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/share/scummvm --themepath=~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/share/scummvm --aspect-ratio --fullscreen --scaler=normal --scale-factor=3 --path=~/Games/beneath-a-steel-sky/ --language=es sky

I have no idea why it's running from the command and not from within Lutris. I've wasted a lot of time trying to make it work, so I'll use this for now...

[pioalpha]

Hi! Another one wiht the same issues. Trying what @cloudrac3r got over the issue with that library, but then it failed for a different library.

While checking, I found a really weird workaround:

1. Remove all the libraries inside the lutris scummvm runner: `rm -r ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/lib`

2. Install scummvm in your system: `sudo apt install scummvm`. Not going to use it, but this way we know that the required libraries are in the system.

3. Soft link to the system libraries: `ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/lib`

4. The runner still fails from within lutris, with the same issue in the logs. But on the first line of the logs you can see the command that it is supposedly running... and it actually works from terminal!!! `~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/bin/scummvm --extrapath=~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/share/scummvm --themepath=~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/share/scummvm --aspect-ratio --fullscreen --scaler=normal --scale-factor=3 --path=~/Games/beneath-a-steel-sky/ --language=es sky`

I have no idea why it's running from the command and not from within Lutris. I've wasted a lot of time trying to make it work, so I'll use this for now...

I copied the libssh.so.4 file you discovered to the folder ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runtime/Ubuntu-18.04-x86_64 and ScummVM started working in Lutris.

[misieck]

This makes Lutris unusable on Steamdeck. Ver. 0.5.17.

[strycore]

As a quick workaround until we push a fix for the flatpak, you can use the Flatpak version of Scummvm which will work fine until we push an update.