libssh.so.4 not found

[Emmi]

Hello,

my daughter enjoyed playing Monkey Island via Lutris on a Linux Mint. This worked well until around the beginning of December 2023. Then, without any conscious change, it suddenly stopped working, probably due to an update that Lutris performed automatically.

We now receive the following error message. It says that the file 'libssh.so.4' is missing or not found.
I have found several search hits on the Internet regarding ScummVM and 'libssh.so.4', but no solution.

Do you have any ideas? Thank you very much.

Emmi

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Started initial process 185 from gamemoderun /home/hans/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/bin/scummvm --extrapath=/home/hans/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/share/scummvm --themepath=/home/hans/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/share/scummvm --aspect-ratio --fullscreen --scaler=normal --scale-factor=3 --path=/home/hans/Games/the-secret-of-monkey-island monkey
Start monitoring process.
/home/hans/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/scummvm/bin/scummvm: error while loading shared libraries: libssh.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 32512)
All processes have quit
Exit with return code 32512

[fibs]

Could you try this in terminal:

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sudo apt update
sudo apt install libssh-4

[Emmi]

I tried that and apt said, it was already installed.

I wonder what scummvm has to do with libssh at all.

Here are 2 other people with the same problem.

[fibs]

I'm not familiar with Lutris, but apparently there's something which might work: Configure|System Options|Prefer system libraries

ScummVM leverages curl to potentially download newer icons and whatnot. That or some other library might depend on libssh.

There's the possibility to use in Linux Mint without Lutris, too. https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/

[Emmi]

I'm not familiar with Lutris, but apparently there's something which might work: Configure|System Options|Prefer system libraries

I did that already and there is no difference between the enabled or disabled option.

There's the possibility to use in Linux Mint without Lutris, too. https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/

Yes, I tried that, but Monkey Island was unplayable with ScummVM directly installed on Linux. The game starts, but it seems, no input device was sent to the game, no keyboard, no mouse (even no mouse pointer visible) and no joystick. But the hotkeys for controlling ScummVM are working. When I press F5, the menu opens and there the mouse works as well. But not in the game.

Thanks for the ideas so far!

[digitall]

Lutris uses Flatpak i.e. container system so that each application runs with it's own set of libraries. This appears to be a known issue with the latest ScummVM flatpak build:
https://github.com/flathub/net.lutris.Lutris/issues/360

I am not sure if https://flathub.org/apps/org.scummvm.ScummVM needs some change as not familar with the flatpak system...