Error while trying to open 'Love2d' game engine

Question

I'm trying to open a game with Love2D and the following error occurs:

Error

boot.lua:577: Cannot load game at path '/home/panali/Desktop/Lua.love/main.lua'. Make sure a folder exists at the specified path.

Traceback

[C]: in function 'error'
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
[C]: in function 'xpcall'

Can anyone help me and tell me what am I doing wrong?

Ultramundane

the error is pretty self-explainatory. "make sure a folder exists at the specified path". did you make sure it exists? Are you using Linux? – Primalia

Yes I'm using linux ubuntu 20.04 and the folder already exists – Ultramundane

did you try to provide the path without the filename main.lua? in the examples the only provide a path. .love is the ending for packaged love games is it not? you use that as a folder? – Primalia

Yes i tried that too! – Ultramundane

adding to your post what you have tried would save us both time ;) – Primalia

so you have a /home/panali/Desktop/Lua.love/main.lua and you run love /home/panali/Desktop/Lua.love/ ? Did you try to not have a . in your folder name? – Primalia

What is the output of ls -l /home/panali/Desktop/Lua.love/main.lua – Kravits

Answer 1

had the same issue, resolved this by pointing folder instead filename:

love ./

instead of

love main.lua

Familist

Answer 2

You can try to open the folder instead of lua file

Monstrance

Answer 3

I dont know if you're still looking at this, the error is that you cant open a main.lua directly, it has to be in a folder.

Bellman

Answer 4

you can't just give the location of the file, you need to give to location of the folder. try putting main.lua inside a folder and then run the folder.

Xylem

Answer 5

If you drag the folder to the love icon instead of dragging the main.lua file to the love icon it works.

Saez

An answer is not a really good place to ask a related question (most likely noone is going to respond, or if someone will, it will be considered off-topic). I recommend you to ask it as a new question (after doing some research, chances are it was already asked and answered before) – Utile

Answer 6

The folder cant have a space in it. It took me an hour to find this out myself.

Frumenty

The question tells you the path the asker tried, and it already doesn't contain a space. – Unhandy

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