No no no don't do that ! You're likely to break something else. Try making a symbolic link instead. Place it in the directory the game wants it, and make it point at where the library is. It still feels a bit like a dirty hack, there's probably a better way of doing it, but it's much cleaner this way.
I don't remember the syntax now, but it's something along the lines
Code:
ln -s
. If I remember correctly, the first argument should be the name of the link (should be the same as library's), and the second - what it points at.
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Note: I'm
planning to switch to Etch, but I'm using Ubuntu now. By the way, my libXi.so.6 is in /usr/lib and there are no problems.