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[Fourdots]

You could try 40d, or one of the previous 0.31.x versions, or even the windows version under Wine. That's the closest to legacy linux there is, I think ...

Good luck figuring out the issue; I don't have any idea. ... okay, one idea: does Ubuntu have a way to force a disk-check on start-up? I know that it does automatically every 20 or 30 times a disk is mounted, but simply waiting isn't so helpful. Assuming that it's a problem with way the file is showing up on-disk, that would probably be the thing to do. Of course, that's probably not the problem, as if so copying the file should have fixed it ... hopefully someone else will know what to do.

[Bluerobin]

Alright, thanks a bunch for your help. 

Edit: Oh geez... I grabbed the linux version of 31.04 and tried it. Its df file calls dwarfort.exe in the df_linux directory (instead of Dwarf_Fortress in the libs directory) and that gives the same 'file does not exist' error. This is just weird and I feel like I've set something up wrong.

[Nonsapient]

Weird.  What version of Ubuntu are you using?  (Oh wait, you're using WUBI aren't you?)

Even the linux version of DF works under wine.  That's how I run it.

I've never used WUBI,  but I assume that's a sort of dashboard that Ubuntu puts over windows?  or are you doing an actual Dual boot?

[Bluerobin]

Well I'm assuming it's a full dual boot (it gives me the OS option when I boot up the computer and everything), but I have to admit I don't know all the details. I'm mainly using Ubuntu for the convenience of Unix on an otherwise Windows machine, so I COULD boot up Windows when I want to play DF, I was just hoping to get as much as I could out of Linux.

[rfry11]

Can you run through these steps for me real quick?

-Boot up into Ubuntu
-Download 0.31.06 (new update) from here: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/df_31_06_linux.tar.bz2
-Open it with the Archive Manager, throw the df_linux folder in your home folder, so the path should look like /USERNAME/home/df_linux/
-Open the Terminal (CTRL+ALT+T), cd df_linux/
-Run the command bash df

And that should work, that worked for me on Ubuntu 10.04
You did indeed install Ubuntu correctly, if it's asking you what to boot into you did it right.

[HideousBeing]

You could try editing the script to cd directly to the df directory... Dunno why it would work, but it's worth a try.

Example script (.06):

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#!/bin/sh
cd /opt/df_linux/ #DF directory
export SDL_DISABLE_LOCK_KEYS=1 # Work around for bug in Debian/Ubuntu SDL patch.
#export SDL_VIDEO_CENTERED=1    # Centre the screen.  Messes up resizing.
exec ./libs/Dwarf_Fortress

EDIT: Reread the OP. No way this would work imo, but I'm out of ideas 

That is a strange problem...

[Bluerobin]

Hmm tried the suggestions from both of you and no luck. Still 'no such file or directory'. I'll probably figure it out eventually accidentally... Thanks for the suggestions.

[bhelyer]

Are you using 32 bit or 64 bit Ubuntu?

[Bluerobin]

Oh geez. I think I forgot to specifically get 32-bit stuff... I'm on a 64-bit system. So... does anyone have a thread up about what to look for for the 32-bit libraries? Which ones do I need?

[ojd]

I think you are running 64-bit Ubuntu.  The Dwarf Fortress executable is 32-bit.  The solution is to install the 32-bit libraries. Try install ia32-libs

[Bluerobin]

Yeah I'm definitely on 64-bit Ubuntu and I forgot about needing 32-bit libraries. Downloading now... hope this works.

Edit: Ooh... new error: "./libs/Dwarf_Fortress: error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Edit2: IT WORKS! Just needed lib32ncursesw5 too. This forum has all sorts of information buried in it... just have to use google to find any of it. Thanks for the help everyone!

[Thief^]

"Can't find" still seems like an odd error to get, when it actually meant "can't load".

Oh well, that's linux for you.

[Baughn]

You get that error if you're missing ld.so.. the way linux works, when you run a program it doesn't actually start that program, it starts ld.so which is then told to run your program. So "/bin/ls" is implicitly translated to "/lib/ld.so /bin/ls".

Which means that, if ld.so doesn't exist, you get a "program not found" error instead of something sane. Pity, that.

[Thief^]

It could at least say "ld.so not found" in that case.

[Bluerobin]

Yup, half the 'fun' of fixing error messages is figuring out what they REALLY mean.