Installing libsdl2-dev on Ubuntu?
foote-darrell opened this issue · comments
I had followed the build instructions on this site to modify the game with more render distance and higher height. Reportedly this computer does not have the libsdl2-dev library which was required. I had referred to this site to download it. I am pretty sure this computer is a x86 architecture, which doesn't seem to be one of the options. I had tried opening one of them, but ti just reports that the dependencies are not met. How do I actually install it?
Did you try this? apt install libsdl2-dev
I tried it. This is what it said:
darrell@darrell-Lenovo-H430:~$ apt install libsdl2-dev
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?
darrell@darrell-Lenovo-H430:~$
Hello @foote-darrell,
You must read the error message carefully. It says: “are you root?” which implies that you must run the command apt install libsdl2-dev as root, which is the Linux equivalent for Administrator under Windows.
To run any command as root, you can use sudo:
sudo apt install libsdl2-dev
You will be prompted for your password, and everything will be good to go!
Looks like that did it. Thanks.