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Watcher
September 5th, 2005, 10:28 AM
Anybody had any chance getting this game to work in Ubuntu? I followed the instructions about copying the stuff, but when opening uplink in my terminal I just got this error:

bernard@bernardtux:~/uplink$ ./uplink
./uplink: relocation error: ./uplink: undefined symbol: __glutRoot

This is not fun, cause I really really really like this game. Anyway if anyone had any luck making this work, please share your solution. Thanks in advance!!
slux
September 6th, 2005, 05:33 AM
I've got Uplink but haven't played it in a while (should as it's a great game). The error message looks like you're missing the glut libs or maybe have a wrong version. Try installing those if you don't have already.
Watcher
September 6th, 2005, 07:51 AM
I've got Uplink but haven't played it in a while (should as it's a great game). The error message looks like you're missing the glut libs or maybe have a wrong version. Try installing those if you don't have already.
Well I checked and I've got the glut libs installed, but wrong version, I don't really know what is the right version than ...
gord
September 6th, 2005, 08:42 AM
just install the newest libglut from synaptic. mine is version 3.7-25 and uplink works ok. allthough there are some problems with fullscreen resolutions for me

oh and make sure you have the latest patch :)
Watcher
September 6th, 2005, 05:07 PM
just install the newest libglut from synaptic. mine is version 3.7-25 and uplink works ok. allthough there are some problems with fullscreen resolutions for me

oh and make sure you have the latest patch :)
I got the 3.8 and it doesn't work ](*,)
born_confused
September 6th, 2005, 07:34 PM
Well, I got this file from somewhere else. Basically unzip it to /usr/lib

then write the following code to a file and place the file in the directory with the uplink executable

#!/bin/sh
here=/PATH/TO/UPLINK/DIRECTORY
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$here:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libglut.so.3.7
exec $here/uplink $*


save the file as say exec_uplink

then chmod +x exec_uplink
./exec_uplink
Watcher
September 7th, 2005, 08:37 AM
Well, I got this file from somewhere else. Basically unzip it to /usr/lib

then write the following code to a file and place the file in the directory with the uplink executable

#!/bin/sh
here=/PATH/TO/UPLINK/DIRECTORY
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$here:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libglut.so.3.7
exec $here/uplink $*


save the file as say exec_uplink

then chmod +x exec_uplink
./exec_uplink
That got me to run the non-patched version, but when I install the patch i get this error now:

bernard@bernardtux:~/.uplink$ ./exec_uplink
/home/bernard/.uplink/uplink: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
born_confused
September 7th, 2005, 10:04 AM
apt for libstdc++
Watcher
September 7th, 2005, 02:40 PM
Checked that before I posted, and have it, so I don't know why it doesn't want to work ...
born_confused
September 7th, 2005, 05:25 PM
Hmm, well, I just searched libstdc++ in synaptic, and the only installed result is
libstdc++5-3.3-dev
Watcher
September 8th, 2005, 07:52 AM
Hmm, well, I just searched libstdc++ in synaptic, and the only installed result is
libstdc++5-3.3-dev
yes, same thing as I found (and it clearly said it was installed)
Jonahhubunutu
November 24th, 2006, 04:49 PM
Ubuntu LTS 6.06 user:
I have been trying to find out how to run the same game on my system for a week, couldn't even get the original working with what posts' points you have discussed. Love it too, but i get that same error msg the whole time, have the libs and the bash command says the same thing originally posted the whole time. <<<HEAD WRECKING>>>
Artificial Intelligence
November 24th, 2006, 05:17 PM
But did you install libglut and then followed what was mention earlier in this thread?
Jonahhubunutu
November 26th, 2006, 11:48 AM
Yeah i tried them all and still got, the patch wasn't a big help either,

./uplink: symbol lookup error: ./uplink: undefined symbol: __glutRoot

I even got the shell app from your links and still haven't gotten it working, on a thumbs up note i downloaded the uplink demo for linux and that works fine. the package from the games for linux page for the full game (shell app) won't register my cdrom and install.