Civilization 6 on Ubuntu 18.04 missing libopenal.so.1

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I'm trying to run Civilization 6 from steam. I get a message saying "an unrecoverable error has occured, and civilization 6 cannot continue".

I'm looking through some solutions here, where I found that I could run the Civ6 executable directly from the directory ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization VI.

When I run it from that directory in terminal I get back:

./Civ6: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I found some similar questions which recommend installing various packages but none of them have worked.

To use the answer below you should enable [universe repository](https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libopenal1) - see possible duplicate of [How do I enable the "Universe" repository from the command line?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/78613/how-do-i-enable-the-universe-repository-from-the-command-line) — N0rbert, Sep 28 '18 at 08:25

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 28 '18 at 15:30

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Install libdevel

sudo apt install libdevel libopenal1

this installs Openal audio API needed for Civilization 6 :)

edited Sep 28 '18 at 15:30

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answered Sep 27 '18 at 23:03

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I get `E: Unable to locate package libdevel` are you using 16.04? – Philip Kirkbride Sep 27 '18 at 23:45
sorry I forgot I upgraded to 18.04 – Philip Kirkbride Sep 28 '18 at 00:03
libopenal1 should actually fix the error, is it still showing ? – Jatin-CBS Sep 28 '18 at 16:30
I have the same error on ubuntu 18.04 – c-a Oct 01 '18 at 12:04
did this fix for you ? – Jatin-CBS Oct 02 '18 at 12:56
you can simply "sudo apt install libopenal1" or download the package manually but repository is always recommended. – Jatin-CBS Oct 02 '18 at 12:57

Civilization 6 on Ubuntu 18.04 missing libopenal.so.1

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