Loki Alpha Centauri Install

[Tarvok]

I recently acquired a copy of the Loki Games version of SMAC, and I can't even install it. (I've searched around, and fount plenty of solutions for dealing with the segfault should I ever actually get it installed; none describing this proglem). This is what I do, and what I get:

tarvok@Rider:/cdrom$ sudo sh setup.sh
This installation doesn't support glibc-2.0 on Linux / x86_64

Please contact Loki Technical Support at support@lokigames.com

Any ideas?

Ah, just call me Captain Duh. I just noticed that x86_64 bit, and have the idea that it doesn't like my 64 bit operating system.

Still, any ideas?

[Tarvok]

More info may be helpful. I'm on an Athalon Sempron 64 2800, Radeon 9800, on-board nForce 3 sound, 3/4 gig of RAM, running Dapper 6.06 LTS (64 bit).

[DarthFrog]

http://patrick.wagstrom.net/weblog/l...haCentauri.xml

It starts up fine. Sound is very choppy and crunchy with static. However, the game crashes on the first turn. Nuisance.

I love this game and really want to get it working. I have it running in a VMWare session running Red Hat 9. I rather suspect that it needs glibc 2.1 or earlier and that the modern glibc is what's causing the problem. In which case, scarfing the RH 9 libc to Edgy and pointing the SMAC binary to use them might well get it working. I just have to figure out how to do that.

I like CIv IV and Warlords well enough but IMHO Alpha Centauri is still the best in the genre. I was one of the original beta testers for this game for Loki.

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Cheers,
Rob

[JMO707]

Do you have any idea if there is anyway to hear music on the game?

For what I have seen in the Loki FAQ, they were planning to had that feature in a future patch, and trying to play something from outside the game and then enter to it, just make all the fx's and voices go mute.

=(

[Tarvok]

Well, because I have moved up to Feisty and now, for some reason, my Windows copy won't run in Cedega, I have gone back to trying to get the Loki version working again. I tried it in 64 bit again, and got the usual error. I've reinstalled Feisty again, this time using an i386 version. The installer worked! Of course, just running "smacpack" results in a segfault. So I am attempting these instructions. The command, according to these instructions, go something like this:

tarvok@Rider:~$ D_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/Loki_Compat/ /usr/local/lib/Loki_Compat/ld-linux.so.2 /usr/local/games/smac/smac.dynamic
/usr/local/games/smac/smac.dynamic: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/games/smac/smac.dynamic: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

As you can see, the file they call "smac.dynamic" does not exist in my installation. (In addition, the name of the directory they suggest is AlphaCentauri, don't know if that means anything) I can change it to just plain "smac" which does exist, though I suspect that is the static binary they warn me against. This is the result I get:

 D_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/Loki_Compat/ /usr/local/lib/Loki_Compat/ld-linux.so.2 /usr/local/games/smac/smac
/usr/local/games/smac/smac: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/games/smac/smac: ELF file OS ABI invalid
tarvok@Rider:~$

I also note that my installation does not show up in loki_update's list. Perhaps this is a clue?

[Tarvok]

Um... bump?

Should I start a new thread with that last message, so I can get that magical "0 replies" attached to it?

[merlyn]

I might be barking up the wrong tree here, but I have noticed a number of posts where people have had similar problems running ix86 games on a 64 bit system.

A solution that is often suggested is to install the ix86 version of the required library in addition to the 64 bit version.

It may help your situation.

Cheers.

[Tarvok]

Originally Posted by merlyn I might be barking up the wrong tree here, but I have noticed a number of posts where people have had similar problems running ix86 games on a 64 bit system. A solution that is often suggested is to install the ix86 version of the required library in addition to the 64 bit version. It may help your situation. Cheers.

Originally Posted by Tarvok I've reinstalled Feisty again, this time using an i386 version.

Ahem.

[johnny4north]

thanks 4 the link tarvok. thanks for the wisdom merlyn.

[Stormspireiv]

I've been trying for a long time to find a good way to get the Loki Alpha Centauri Planetary Pack working on Feisty...and after a long time googling different things, I came up with this nice walkthrough someone created. It even includes the patch for the game.

I haven't tested it yet (downloading patch now...since all the mirrors on loki_update won't work...), but it seems this guy got it all working. Multiplayer and all. I will post my results as soon as I get them.

Here is the link:
http://lordhedgehog.hedgie.com/smac/

Edit: The patch provided on that site will not work for me. It doesn't give me any errors, it just closes the console window... If anyone can get any patch working, please let me know.