How to install on linux mint

[bill]

I have downloaded bbclinux.zip on my linux mint 64 bit system with xfce desktop. I created a folder in my home directry named BBC BASIC and unzipped it there. Next I opened a terminal and downloaded the 3 files for the 32 bit ubuntu or linux mint systems. Where is the program installed and how can I start it? Thank you for any suggestions.

[guest]

Where is the program installed and how can I start it?

It's installed wherever you unzipped bbclinux.zip, and it's called bbcsdl (so executed with ./bbcsdl). Sorry if you didn't find that sufficiently obvious.

Richard.

[bill]

I went to download folder opened a terminal then typed ./bbcsdl with the following error.



bill@bill-HP-Pavilion-x360-Convertible ~/BBC BASIC $ ./bbcsdl
./bbcsdl: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL2-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
bill@bill-HP-Pavilion-x360-Convertible ~/BBC BASIC $

[guest]

I went to download folder opened a terminal then typed ./bbcsdl with the following error.

I'm confident that the error message means exactly what it says: the libSDL2 shared library isn't installed.

I wonder if you made a common mistake, which is to install the 64-bit library rather than the 32-bit library. There are no instructions in the install.txt file for installing BBCSDL on 64-bit Linux Mint, simply because I don't have a 64-bit Linux Mint to try it on! I'm told it's easy, and just involves a 'hybrid' of the 32-bit Mint and 64-bit Ubuntu instructions, but the detail is something you will have to work out yourself. If you can let me know exactly what sequence of commands works, I am happy to incorporate them in an updated version of install.txt for the benefit of others.

Richard.