Hi I spent all day yesterday trying to get the Witcher 2 to run on my LM17 machine, something I know works as I had it working on Friday before I broke my wireless config updating the Nvidia driver!

So I re-installed LM17 and copied the game from my backup drive, so here is where the problems begin, running the application in terminal so I can see any error output I get that the game can't access "LibSDL2-2.0" that's fine so I use the apt-get command to install the i386 version required and I get an error saying that the following dependency cant be installed " libwayland-egl1-mesa". So I apt-get install this no issues it finds the package downloads installs it, and inexplicably removes cinnamon and all the min-meta packages! resulting in nothing but a black screen when I login to my user, even 'ctrl-alt-F1' yields nothing usable.

I have no idea why on Sunday installing libSDL2 breaks mint, yet on Friday it didn't! and I specifically remember having to install it.

In the end I symlinked the libSDL2 libraries from my steam installation folder, however I still want to know why the above happened. Anyone have any clues? because it's bugging me, plus LM17 is officially supported so the games requirements shouldnt break the O/S

I'm not a Mint user but I'm pretty sure that if you're installing the usual libSDL2 package, you should not be getting wayland-anything. Is it possible that you chose the wrong package to install? Or there are some really messed up dependencies somewhere.

Also, a good practice when installing packages is to check which ones are affected. Especially if there are packages that are going to be removed, don't do it just like that.

Edit. And if you're on a GOG-supported distro and installed the requirement packages and it still won't find libSDL2, then open a support ticket - that way it will be fixed.

Yeah usually I would install via synaptic package manage, so get to see the list of affected packages, rather than the terminal, but as I had previously installed SDL2 I foolishly didnt think anything of it.

I went to install the libSDL2-2.0:i386 package, which thankyou I have just noticed was wrong! I should have installed libSDL2-2.0-0:i386 tat '-0' makes all the difference doesn't have wayland as a dependacy.

Well this will teach me to pay more attention, lesson learned I think!