Hello, just got Cortex Command for linux from the last Humble indie bundle (which bundled the #2 also) , and I'm not able to start it... First I missed the libssl and libcrypto libraries - on my system (Archlinux) they're version 1.0.0 but CC was expecting 0.9.8. Since I had those versions in a local directory (Crayon Physics Deluxe I think shipped them) I copied them over to libs; now I'm getting this:

if I change my resolution to something else [1] before launching the game, the screen goes black for a moment but it still fails to start:



I'm on Archlinux using nvidia propietary drivers version 275.21 and xorg-server 1.10.3

[1] I usually am on 1280x800 and I tried changing, before launching the game, to 800x600,640x512, 640x480 and 320x240; in all cases I got the above error

I'm having the exact same problem, minus the bit about libcrypto and libssl. I'm running Arch Linux too, 64-bit, with kernel 2.6.39. I have a Radeon 6870, using the Catalyst drivers version 11.7, and Xorg 1.10.3.

anyone can help us? I'd really like to play this game...

Have the game working under Arch Linux 32bit,

I used the system library's for all but libluabindd.so.0.9.0.so and libcAudio.so
Back all others up and make sure you have the system libs installed
Install luabind from aur: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21680

Not sure if this would work for 64bit users as the game appears to need the boost and static luabind library's in 32bit

I hope this helps

thanks algorioth, I got it working! luabind from AUR wasn't necessary though, I just copied the libs/ folder to libs.bak, removed libs/ and started CortexCommand. It would of course complain of missing libraries, so one at a time I copied them over from libs.bak to libs - specifically only libcAudio and libluabindd were needed. Now it runs!

hello, here's another arch linux user can anyone tell how well it runs? last time i tested it, i saw quite a few crashes, controls were a bit clumsy and gameplay somewhat slow. was there an improvement? cheers, jose

My advice as a fellow Linux user: just run the Win version through Wine.

Hello Linux fellows,

I have come here to share my experience with a similar problem because I believe that I found a simpler solution than the previous ones (and more elegant than using the Windows build via Wine).

I am running Arch Linux (32 bits) and Cortex Command build 25.
The first time I tried to run CC, it did not even start. If ran from a terminal, I would get the following error :
The version of openssl installed on my system is 1.0.0.d so I built and installed openssl-compatibility v0.9.8 from AUR. This PKGBUILD just retrieves libcrypto.so.0.9.8 and libssl.so.0.9.8 from the old openssl package for Arch (32 or 64 bits depending on your system's architecture).
Then, I was able to run CC despite getting the following message in the terminal :
I just played (not even completed) the tutorial mission but it seems to run fine to me.

Bye