Gmod gives me an error on start-up- client.so not found

[xSetrox]

http://imgur.com/7vX5fem
^yeah, that background in the back of the error message doesn't look good either.
Hey guys, so I finally seemed to download the correct libraries for gmod, and now it gives me this error on start-up.
I have tried doing this-
cd ~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Ga­rrysMod/bin
ln -s libawesomium-1-7.so.0 libawesomium-1-7.so.2
ln -s ../garrysmod/bin/client.so ./
But it gives me no error when I do it.
In /home on my computer, it has client.so in it but when I try to open client.so (not by terminal), it says it is broken and asks me if I want to move it to trash.
I have also discovered that libawesomeium (apparently a library for linux) was in /home.
I do not know where my steam folder is.
I am running linux mint 13. Help.

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[xSetrox]

Bump

[Blockzillahead]

Ultimate solution: Don't use Linux

But upon googling it(magic) you can find this;

Ok, I did some digging through older errors listed here, and some of them had suggested symlinking libawesomium because apparently that is why client.so is not working.. I tried this: "ln -s libawesomium-1-7.so.0 libawesomium-1-7.so.2" (in the SteamApps/common/GarrysMod/bin folder) and then switched to dev mode.. and Gmod is working on dev mode, I hope this works for the rest of you.

Same problem here on Gentoo.

I worked around the problem.

The following are the things you can do to work around the problem(s):
Go to the shell:
export STEAMLIBRARY="put your steam library path here"
cd $STEAMLIBRARY/SteamApps/common/GarrysMod/bin
ln -s ../garrysmod/bin/client.so ${STEAMLIBRARY//\//\}"\SteamApps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\bin\client.so"

This will solve that problem, but it won't be enough because someone forgot to update the awesomium library (or probably put the Mac version, I see Mach binaries).

To solve this download http://www.awesomium.com/downloads/awesomium_1_7_2_sdk_linux32.tar.gz
extract libawesomium-1-7.so.2.0 and awesomium_process in $STEAMLIBRARY/SteamApps/common/GarrysMod/bin
rename libawesomium-1-7.so.2.0 to libawesomium-1-7.so.2
symlink libawesomium-1-7.so.2 to libawesomium-1-7.so.0

If I didn't forget anything it should work now.

EDIT: the first part removes the error message discussed here but is useless after fixing the awesomium files.

Don't know what it means because I'm not a pro hacker like linux users but you'll figure it out.

Wait even better, a video;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBJf8r-bAho&hd=1

[Nikolan]

Don't know what it means because I'm not a pro hacker like linux users but you'll figure it out.

protip: if you don't know what the forget you're talking about don't bother helping lol

[Renderman]

Right click on your game and validate cache or files or whatever it says there.

[DrenDran]

Ultimate solution: Don't use Linux
Don't know what it means because I'm not a pro hacker like linux users but you'll figure it out.

why bother posting?

[xSetrox]

Ultimate solution: Don't use Linux

But upon googling it(magic) you can find this;Don't know what it means because I'm not a pro hacker like linux users but you'll figure it out.

Wait even better, a video;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBJf8r-bAho&hd=1

sorry for page stretch
not gonna snip, too lazy and on ipod
you didn't read op, I said that the commands in that video didnt work for me

[xSetrox]

Well, I did all of the above.
I no longer get an error but when I start a game it crashes a loading world.
Help :c

[xSetrox]

Bump. :c

[DrenDran]

i have gmod and linux
but i haven't played it since I got linux
it is installed though
maybe ill try playing it tomarrow

[KillerCop311]

same here in 12.04. missing client.so when it's shipped
screenshot from 2013-12-08 09 08 48


edit: I found some workaround that fix this error

on linux, run following commands:
cd ~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/GarrysMod/bin
ln -s libawesomium-1-7.so.0 libawesomium-1-7.so.2
ln -s ../garrysmod/bin/client.so ./

source: http://goo.gl/Mrzgml

does this work?

[xSetrox]

I don't have that issue anymore. now it crashes on loading world when I start a game

[xSetrox]

bump
please guys, i can't put up with this anymore
i love gmod :c