Ohkay! Now, it's me. Sorry about that.

As I was saying, I accidentally posted that from my brother's account because he asked me to try to nab him a Rise of the Triad 2013 as he ran out the door and, somehow, his auth cookie got into my normal Firefox cookie store.

No worries :P
i never said that. I'm enjoying using it despite having some problems, and I'm a beginning user of it.

No, I said that.

No, I'm pretty sure I'm correct that I will never use Linux. :)

But I will, I'm actually liking it despite having some problems.

that's odd. have you checked that the path is correct, ie that is executable really is at that location:
/opt/GOG Games/Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic/game/bin/Wasteland

note: lower/upper case matters on linux.

the only other case where ldd would throw that error is afaik if you are on the wrong platform. Running ldd on a 32bit executable on a 64bit system (with no 32bit libraries installed). sure you have a 32bit Ubuntu?

did you try the suggestion that was mentioned earlier:

Yes, I'd check that the file is exactly in that path.

Yep, got a 32 bit ubuntu,

3.16.0-31-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 10 17:41:23 UTC 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

Try this:
/opt/GOG Games/Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic$ stat ./game/bin/Wasteland

Make sure that the file exists.

If not, do this:
/opt/GOG Games/Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic$ cd game/bin/
and this:
/opt/GOG Games/Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic/game/bin$ ls

and make sure Wasteland appears on the list of files.

It should be there and assuming you installed the right version of Wasteland, ldd (LDD) should spit out something valuable.

No such file or directory on all 3, and I know the directory is there I just looked in the file explorer.

Can you give me a direct link to your download so I can look it up myself? I won't keep the game, not my style.

I think I know what's happening to the no such files or directory. It must be because of the white space characters. Do this for me and copy the contents.

$ dpkg --list | grep gog

Here's an explanation. This above asks Debian Package Manager to list down all installed apps and then we're going to filter the list by the word "gog".

I would expect something like this to show up.
gog-wasteland

Then do this:
$ dpkg --listfiles gog-wasteland

Replace gog-wasteland with WHATEVER name pops up on your dpkg --list command.

Copy the contents and paste it here. This gives us who are trying to help you a baseline of where the stuff are in your computer. This also allows us to get the diagnostics commands we are asking you to do to work.

Good luck and post back. :)

Just wanted to give everyone here a heads-up and say that Wasteland does not have a bin directory.

The default path to the wasteland executable is:

/opt/GOG Games/Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic/game

containing the following files/directories (directories listed in bold):

legal.bin
portraits
splash.bin
libSDL.so
portraits.bin
vo
music
rom
wasteland

To run it from the command line, though, I went to the /opt/GOG Games/Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic directory and ran start.sh.

I haven't really looked into the problem much, but just wanted a baseline and to provide a bit more info before going to bed, in case it helps anyone else who's looking into the problem. Oh, and for the record, yes, my copy does work -- 32 bit Ubuntu, nVidia gfx card.

Thanks for the assistance blakstar!

So, let's do:
/opt/GOG Games/Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic/game$ ldd wasteland

Let us know what the contents are.