Dealing with library dependencies

[Martin Hanson <greencoppermine@yandex.com>]

Hi,

I was thinking about getting the game Alien Isolation, but running a "strace" at a friends installation showed that the game required libssl.1.0.0, but I am running Debian Stretch which has libssl.1.0.2. Also other similar libraries are off on version number.

How does one handle such an issue?

Downgrading to jessie is not an option as I have other stuff that requires newer libraries, hence the original need for stretch.

Should one simply create a symbolic link from libssl.1.0.2 to libssl.1.0.0? Would that even work?

I don't understand why library dependencies doesn't come with the games themselves in some in-game directory so as to make it more independent upon Linux distribution etc.

Anyway, feedback, help, and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Martin