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Solved: No sound in other applications while playing Wurm with sound

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I just found a solution to a problem that had long vexed me, so I thought I'd share it.

This is on Ubuntu Natty.

The problem:

Wurm's sound is mutually exclusive with other applications.

and more recently: setting sound to OpenAL results in no sound due to library not being found.

Solution:

Use the package manager to install libopenal-dev and libopenal1-dbg in addition to libopenal1.

This remarkably simple solution I stumbled across doesn't seem to be anywhere else on the net, so I thought I'd post it here.

I've tried to solve this problem on and off many times with no luck, but now I can play Wurm with sound while listening a music player! :)

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You sir, are my hero!!

After so long searching for a solution, it was this simple.. This works with Oneiric as well, although there is no -dpg package

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