Getting libudev.so.0 error while trying run GetRasplex.bin

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Hello, 

Trying to install Rasplex, but get error about libudev.so.0

# ./GetRasplex.bin 
./GetRasplex.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Tried to install libudev, but It seems It can't found package.

$ sudo apt-get install libudev0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package libudev0 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package ‘libudev0’ has no installation candidate

Anyone can help me get on the track? I'm using Ubuntu 13.10 64bit

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I had the same problem and never got to the bottom of it. I ended up using dd to flash the card see :

http://www.rasplex.com/get-started/download-rasplex.html

The SD card showed up as /dev/mmcblk on my laptop, not /dev/sd - but if you have never used dd before, double check the args before hitting enter ;-)

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I found (on askubuntu) that making simlink could solve this problem. For my system (Ubuntu 13.10 64bit) this line did a job:

sudo ln -sf /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0

However I feel that brewston solution to use dd is safer, because in that way you don't need alter your system. I have no idea what differs libudev.so.0 from libudev.so.1. Now I just blindly link them and hope that It will not mess up my system in long run.

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I found (on askubuntu) that making simlink could solve this problem. For my system (Ubuntu 13.10 64bit) this line did a job:

sudo ln -sf /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0

However I feel that brewston solution to use dd is safer, because in that way you don't need alter your system. I have no idea what differs libudev.so.0 from libudev.so.1. Now I just blindly link them and hope that It will not mess up my system in long run.

Don't do this, this is very bad.  What will happen is the GetRasplex.bin will use your new libudev as if it were the previous major version, and it isn't.   Enough in udev changed to change the revision # for the release.  Sure, it might work.  It could also do unexpected things, and that's a bad idea with a program that writes disk images by block.

Install the proper libudev0.