How to get ePSXe x64 binary to work on Linux

epsxe-x64-linux-fix.md

If you get this error when executing the binary via terminal:

./epsxe_x64: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Fix:

• sudo apt-get install libsdl-ttf2.0-0

Tested and works on Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS.

Other deps were already met if not you may need to grab them too:

• sudo apt-get install libsdl-image1.2
• sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0

On Linuxmint 19.2 you also need to install the package libcurl3

./epsxe_x64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_3' not found (required by ./epsxe_x64)

For ubuntu 18.04 (as of this date) you need both:
libcurl3 & libsdl-ttf2.0-0

How to install in Ubuntu 20.04?
libcur3 is replaced by libcurl4, and v3 can't be installed!

I had to uninstall libcur4, which removed transmission-gtk, feh, and uget. Because all these depend on it!

How to install in Ubuntu 20.04?
libcur3 is replaced by libcurl4, and v3 can't be installed!

I had to uninstall libcur4, which removed transmission-gtk, feh, and uget. Because all these depend on it!

I'm having the same problem

I got it working on Pop!_OS 20.10 (like Ubuntu 20.10), probably the same procedure works on 20.04 as well:

1. Install libsdl2-ttf-2.0-0
2. Create a folder named lib in the same directory as epsxe_x64 for the custom library files
3. Download legacy libraries libcurl3 and libssl1.0.0 but do NOT install (a good place to download are the official repo links found in pkgs.org, I have used the versions for 18.04)
4. Extract the files and copy the contents from x86_64-linux-gnu to the lib folder created previously
5. You need to create a link to libSDL_ttf since the app expects a different name, so cd into the created lib folder and do something like this (adjust the original path to your distro if needed):
   ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2_ttf-2.0.so.0.14.1 libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0

The lib directory should look like this in the end (openssl-1.0.0 is a directory with the engines):

libcrypto.so.1.0.0
libcurl.so.4 -> libcurl.so.4.5.0
libcurl.so.4.5.0
libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0 -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2_ttf-2.0.so.0.14.1
libssl.so.1.0.0
openssl-1.0.0

Now you can run it with: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib ./epsxe_x64

References:
https://superuser.com/questions/192573/how-do-you-specify-the-location-of-libraries-to-a-binary-linux
https://forum.star-conflict.com/index.php?/topic/24066-how-to-fix-the-curl_openssl_3-issue/

JFYI: I have installed epsxe because someone else said it would not need a console BIOS, but it is not true. PCSXR is available in the official repos and seems to work just fine, and it actually can simulate a PSX BIOS.

Thank you for that summary lfom. I was wondering what file am I looking for inside of the libcurl3 deb archive, that I should copy into the lib folder I created? is it the /usr/share/lintian/overrides/libcurl3? Or is it the /usr/lib/x86-64-linux-gnu/..... etc file

Thank you for that summary lfom. I was wondering what file am I looking for inside of the libcurl3 deb archive, that I should copy into the lib folder I created? is it the /usr/share/lintian/overrides/libcurl3? Or is it the /usr/lib/x86-64-linux-gnu/..... etc file

It was a while ago, but #4 says:

Extract the files and copy the contents from x86_64-linux-gnu to the lib folder created previously