Anybody managed to get InstaMat to run?

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I’ve been trying to install InstaMat, and I have been almost instantly stonewalled. Whenever I try to run it, it just gives me this error:

./InstaMAT Studio: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I’ve checked, I do have libxml2 installed, and the program’s own docs appear to be outdated as they refer to an install.sh script that doesn’t even exist in the archive.

I know they do not officially support arch but, well… the fact that the docs are inaccurate and the fact that it cannot find the library that already exists on my PC is still weirding me out.

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To anybody else being as dumb as me: apparently, recent versions of libxml2 broke compatibility with older versions, so if you need to run something that requires that particular library you’re going to have to install libxml2-legacy, which for the most part fixes the issue.