.so files are distro dependent. (This is theoretially a good thing. Means debian can distribute a stable version and Arch can distribute a so fresh the hen doesn’t know its missing yet version). If you’re a command line guru you can run a pacman or deb query to find out what package you have to install to add that library at a system level. But oftentimes you can’t just use a different .so because the .so was built to depend on another .so and you basically have to solve a dependency chain by hand. Its a big mess that apt or pacman or even gentoo’s famously obtuse emerge solves for you invisibly.
as to where to find the ancient version that binary was built for? well My goto is archive.archlinux.org but its an asshole of a process and not for the faint of heart. sometimes you just need to build the library from scratch which is BULLSHIT and I’m not unaware of that fact.
can you just go to a website and download the .so? yes actually. But it might just decide not to work. This is a problem that individual distros are meant to be solving and do so when distributing open source software. As for with steam games, I think valve solves this problem with the soldier runtime environment which I mentioned above.
Is there a site to download various .so files?
.so files are distro dependent. (This is theoretially a good thing. Means debian can distribute a stable version and Arch can distribute a so fresh the hen doesn’t know its missing yet version). If you’re a command line guru you can run a pacman or deb query to find out what package you have to install to add that library at a system level. But oftentimes you can’t just use a different .so because the .so was built to depend on another .so and you basically have to solve a dependency chain by hand. Its a big mess that apt or pacman or even gentoo’s famously obtuse emerge solves for you invisibly.
as to where to find the ancient version that binary was built for? well My goto is archive.archlinux.org but its an asshole of a process and not for the faint of heart. sometimes you just need to build the library from scratch which is BULLSHIT and I’m not unaware of that fact.
can you just go to a website and download the .so? yes actually. But it might just decide not to work. This is a problem that individual distros are meant to be solving and do so when distributing open source software. As for with steam games, I think valve solves this problem with the soldier runtime environment which I mentioned above.