Dear Maintainer, the engine does not play music because it does not load
libvorbisfile.so.
This is an upstream build dependency issue that can be worked around by placing
libvorbisfile.so in the game's Bin dir:

    sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbisfile.so.3.3.8  /usr/lib/serious-engine/tfe/Bin/libvorbisfile.so
    sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbisfile.so.3.3.8  /usr/lib/serious-engine/tse/Bin/libvorbisfile.so

https://github.com/ptitSeb/Serious-Engine/issues/44

This workaround will stop working the next time libvorbisfile is updated
to any new upstream release. A better workaround would be this
(untested!):

     sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbisfile.so.3  /usr/lib/serious-engine/tfe/Bin/libvorbisfile.so
     sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvorbisfile.so.3  /usr/lib/serious-engine/tse/Bin/libvorbisfile.so

which should continue to work for as long as libvorbisfile is
ABI-compatible with the version currently available in Debian.

(Obviously it would be better for the game engine to dlopen the correct
SONAME of libvorbisfile, which would be the real fix for this issue.)

     smcv

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
serious-engine, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1142922@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sébastien Noel <twolife@debian.org> (supplier of updated serious-engine package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:36:11 +0200
Source: serious-engine
Architecture: source
Version: 0~git20250928+dfsg-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Sébastien Noel <twolife@debian.org>
Closes: 1142922
Changes:
 serious-engine (0~git20250928+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Link against libvorbisfile at build time instead of loading it
     dynamically with dlopen(). Closes: #1142922
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