SteamVR linux files missing, libnvidia-ml.so does not exist

[ZoriGithub]

Description

Two errors show up upon opening ALVR and clicking "Launch SteamVR". One says "SteamVR linux files missing, aborting startup, please re-check compatibility tools for SteamVR or verify integrity of files for SteamVR", and the other one says "Can't initialize NVML engine, error: a libloading error occurred: libnvidia-ml.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory."

General Troubleshooting

• [Y] I carefully followed the instructions in the README and successfully completed the setup wizard
• [Y] I read the ALVR GitHub Wiki

Environment

KDE Plasma 6.1.5

Hardware

https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=e9b5f58738

CPU:
4x Intel Core i5-4690K @ 3.50GHz
GPU:
Geforce RTX 2060
GPU Driver Version:
Mesa NV164
Audio:
Pipewire

Installation

ALVR Version:
v20.11.0
ALVR Settings File:
Default
SteamVR Version:
Latest
Install Type:

• Packaged (exe, deb, rpm, etc)
• [Y] Portable (zip)
• Source

OS Name and Version (winver on Windows or grep PRETTY_NAME /etc/os-release on most Linux distributions):
Fedora 40

[ivanka2012]

I'm a Debian Testing user and I also use KDE Plasma.
I checked where ALVR is looking for NVML with this command:
strace bin/alvr_dashboard 2>&1 | grep -E '^open(at)?\(.*\.so'
ALVR looks in a lot of places but none of those places contained libnvidia-ml.so. I ran this command on my machine and after that ALVR worked:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nvidia/current/libnvidia-ml.so /usr/lib