what does this error mean?

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:12:22 -0400
"Jimmy Wu" <jimmywu013+ubuntu-user-list at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to run a game and got this error:
> ./n_v14: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> Anyone know what it means?
> 
> I don't think this will help, but the game is "N", and is easily found by
> googling metanet and clicking the first link that appears

 $ dlocate libgtk-1.2.so.0
libgtk1.2: /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1
libgtk1.2: /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0

So according to "dlocate" ( a handy utility for finding which package
contains particular installed files) ,  this tells me is that you need to
install

libgtk1.2

(This is the "old" gtk - there are still some programs that use it )

The equivalent to "dlocate" for files that might not yet be installed is
"apt-file" - see 

apt-cache show apt-file

Peter