bartbes wrote: I'm not sure why running games would fail.

Uninstalling that older libsdl worked perfectly, though.

Thanks bart.

I've read several threads about people having problems on ubuntu and then solving them by installing it from bartbes' PPA, but I can't get that to work for me. :( So, after adding the PPA and updating apt, this is the result of 'sudo apt-get install love' : nico@Tostadora-HP:~$ sudo apt-get install ...