SFML D bindings: libsfml-system.so.2.5: cannot open shared object file:

Question

I recently did a fresh install of CSFML and I am getting this errors when running my program:

object.Exception@source/app.d(38): Fatal error(s) encountered whilst calling `loadSFML()` function:
 ["Error: libcsfml-system.so, Message: libsfml-system.so.2.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory",
 "Error: libcsfml-system.so.2, Message: libcsfml-system.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory", 
"Error: libcsfml-system.so.2.0, Message: libcsfml-system.so.2.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"]

I am using SFML D bindings (https://github.com/BindBC/bindbc-sfml):

void loadDyn() {
    if (!loadSFML()) {
        string[] messages;

        foreach (const(ErrorInfo) err; errors) {
            string errorStr = to!string(err.error);
            string messageStr = to!string(err.message);

            messages ~= format("Error: %s, Message: %s", errorStr, messageStr);
        }

        throw new Exception(format("Fatal error(s) encountered whilst calling `loadSFML()` function: %s", messages));
    }
}

void main() {
    loadDyn();

    sfRenderWindow* renderWindow = sfRenderWindow_create(sfVideoMode(500, 500), "Snake Smooth Dynamics", sfWindowStyle.sfDefaultStyle, null);
    sfEvent event;

    while (renderWindow.sfRenderWindow_isOpen()) {
        while (renderWindow.sfRenderWindow_pollEvent(&event)) {
            if (event.type == sfEventType.sfEvtClosed) {
                renderWindow.sfRenderWindow_close();
            }
        }

        renderWindow.sfRenderWindow_clear(sfYellow);
        renderWindow.sfRenderWindow_drawSprite(snakeHeadSprite, null);
        renderWindow.sfRenderWindow_display();
    }
}

Things I've tried:

• I found someone with a similar question: Linux SFML - Cannot Open Shared Object File, tried out some answers but to no avail

• I tried to sudo apt purge every CSFML dependency (graphics, audo, etc) and reinstall each component (csfml-audio, csfml-graphics) manually etc, to no avail.

• I tried to run sudo ldconfig... didn't work

• As a last ditch effort I tried to manually move the shared object files to the /usr/local/lib directory (to try and perhaps trick the compiler to run the program?) but to no avail.

• I tried to run on a new VM and still didn't work

• I tried to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable

The amount of layers I depend on make it impossible to find where the bug is from, there are a lot of separate things going on and it's very multilayered, I don't know where the issue is specifically coming from as it used to work just fine I ran the exact same commands to install CSFML previously, now when I do it it just refuses to run. The weird thing is when I ran a brand new virtual machine, installed those packages, still same issue.

I am running Linux Mint 21.1, Ubuntu based. Relatively new PC.