diff --git a/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control b/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control
index 800c25b88c..0252c2ea77 100644
--- a/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control
+++ b/packaging/linux/deb/DEBIAN/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Version: {VERSION}
 Architecture: all
 Maintainer: Chris Forbes <chrisf@ijw.co.nz>
 Installed-Size: {SIZE}
-Depends: libopenal1, mono-runtime (>= 2.10), libmono-system-core4.0-cil, libmono-system-drawing4.0-cil, libmono-system-windows-forms4.0-cil, libfreetype6, libsdl1.2debian, libgl1-mesa-glx, libgl1-mesa-dri
+Depends: libopenal1, mono-runtime (>= 2.10), libmono-system-core4.0-cil, libmono-system-drawing4.0-cil, libmono-system-windows-forms4.0-cil, libfreetype6, libc6, libasound2, libgl1-mesa-glx, libgl1-mesa-dri
 Section: games
 Priority: extra
 Homepage: http://www.open-ra.org/
diff --git a/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/PKGBUILD b/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/PKGBUILD
index d245d92bad..030b4b4801 100644
--- a/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/PKGBUILD
+++ b/packaging/linux/pkgbuild/PKGBUILD
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ arch=('any')
 url="http://open-ra.org"
 license=('GPL3')
 groups=()
-depends=('mono' 'openal' 'mesa' 'freetype2' 'sdl')
+depends=('mono' 'openal' 'mesa' 'freetype2' 'glibc' 'alsa-lib')
 makedepends=('git' 'unzip' 'wget')
 optdepends=('gksu: Elevation for installing game packages on Gnome platforms'
 'kdesudo: Elevation for installing game packages on KDE platforms')
diff --git a/packaging/linux/rpm/openra.spec b/packaging/linux/rpm/openra.spec
index 1dd766aa8a..81c946331e 100644
--- a/packaging/linux/rpm/openra.spec
+++ b/packaging/linux/rpm/openra.spec
@@ -14,10 +14,15 @@ Group: Amusements/Games
 Packager: Matthias Mailänder <matthias@mailaender.name>
 Requires: mono-core
 Requires: mono-winforms
-Requires: SDL
 Requires: openal
 Requires: libfreetype.so.6
-Requires: libSDL2-2.0.so.0
+Requires: libasound.so.2
+Requires: libc.so.6
+Requires: libdl.so.2
+Requires: libm.so.6
+Requires: libpthread.so.0
+Requires: librt.so.1
+
 Prefix: /usr
 Source: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRoot: /tmp/openra
diff --git a/thirdparty/SDL2-CS.dll.config b/thirdparty/SDL2-CS.dll.config
index b8ec598b05..7ebda83a28 100644
--- a/thirdparty/SDL2-CS.dll.config
+++ b/thirdparty/SDL2-CS.dll.config
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <configuration>
-	<dllmap dll="SDL2.dll" os="windows" target="SDL2.dll"/>
-	<dllmap dll="SDL2.dll" os="osx" target="libSDL2.dylib"/>
-	<dllmap dll="SDL2.dll" os="linux" target="libSDL2-2.0.so.0"/>
-
-	<dllmap dll="SDL2_image.dll" os="windows" target="SDL2_image.dll"/>
-	<dllmap dll="SDL2_image.dll" os="osx" target="libSDL2_image-2.0.0.dylib"/>
-	<dllmap dll="SDL2_image.dll" os="linux" target="libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0"/>
-
-	<dllmap dll="SDL2_mixer.dll" os="windows" target="SDL2_mixer.dll"/>
-	<dllmap dll="SDL2_mixer.dll" os="osx" target="libSDL2_mixer-2.0.0.dylib"/>
-	<dllmap dll="SDL2_mixer.dll" os="linux" target="libSDL2_mixer-2.0.so.0"/>
-
-	<dllmap dll="SDL2_ttf.dll" os="windows" target="SDL2_ttf.dll"/>
-	<dllmap dll="SDL2_ttf.dll" os="osx" target="libSDL2_ttf-2.0.0.dylib"/>
-	<dllmap dll="SDL2_ttf.dll" os="linux" target="libSDL2_ttf-2.0.so.0"/>
-
-	<dllmap dll="soft_oal.dll" os="windows" target="soft_oal.dll"/>
-	<dllmap dll="soft_oal.dll" os="osx" target="libopenal.1.dylib"/>
-	<dllmap dll="soft_oal.dll" os="linux" target="libopenal.so.1"/>
+  <dllmap os="osx" dll="SDL2.dll" target="libSDL2.dylib"/>
+  <dllmap os="linux" dll="SDL2.dll" cpu="x86" target="libSDL232.2.0.2.so" />
+  <dllmap os="linux" dll="SDL2.dll" cpu="x86-64" target="libSDL264.2.0.2.so" />
 </configuration>
diff --git a/thirdparty/linux/libSDL232.2.0.2.so b/thirdparty/linux/libSDL232.2.0.2.so
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..29f37470fb
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diff --git a/thirdparty/linux/libSDL264.2.0.2.so b/thirdparty/linux/libSDL264.2.0.2.so
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..be77fbe22b
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