installing games on AMD64

[mistic]

hi there,

I'm installing Ubuntu on a friends AMD64, and he wants to play Q3A, ET, Doom3 and stuff, now i know there are linux-binaries for them, i've allready downloaded them, chmodded and ran them, problem is the install fails, it says:

This installation doesn't support glibc-2.0 on Linux / x86_64
(tried to run setup)
See http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/ for troubleshooting
The setup program seems to have failed on x86_64/glibc-2.0

anyone knows how to fix this?

grtz
Mistic

[dmatrix]

The only way that I know of is to go thru the work and build a 32bit chroot. Details on this can be found here:

http://digital-conquest.ath.cx/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu

It sure would be nice if someone could come up with a better solution something is probably missing in the ia32-libs. As well it sure would be nice if there was a ia32-libs with support for wine/cedega. I would love to rid myself of this 32bit chroot for gaming....

Anyone have any better ideas for running 32 bit binaries like wine/cedega and some Loki installers on AMD64 Ubuntu?

[mistic]

i think that is a bit overkill

these installers work perfectly on gentoo so it should be possible without the chroot...

its not for using wine/cedega, its all for games that should run natively under linux (all games by ID-software)

my idea is that a game that doesn't come out for linux natively isn't worth playing

[ahyden]

I managed to install both Doom 3 and Quake 3 on amd 64 without having to create a 32bit chroot environment.

Doom 3 just worked, no problem here, however when I tried to run the quake3 linux installation binary I got a message similar to yours. I had to unpack and run the installation manually:

sh linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run --target q3
cd q3/
sudo ./setup.sh

I think this also works for other .run files from id-software, but I havn't tried.

Hope it helped

[setite]

Originally Posted by mistic i think that is a bit overkill these installers work perfectly on gentoo so it should be possible without the chroot... its not for using wine/cedega, its all for games that should run natively under linux (all games by ID-software) my idea is that a game that doesn't come out for linux natively isn't worth playing

pfft... thats insane... until the entire gaming community embraces linux there will always be good games that were not released for it...

[mistic]

Originally Posted by setite pfft... thats insane... until the entire gaming community embraces linux there will always be good games that were not released for it...

but for real gaming, i've got about 21 gaming-consoles lying around, so that pretty much enables me to play any game


look here

but seriously, i can't bring myself to running windows just for gaming anymore... right now I have absolutely NO windows anymore, the only windows around is that of my roommate and even he is starting to switch

I've even converted all the PC's back home to linux (saves me a whole lot of problems each time I get home ) plus as soon as it all is installed, it is easy enough for anyone to use...

grtz
Mistic

btw thx hayden for the help...

[golpira]

For what it's worth, I have Unreal Tournament 2003 running fine one a dual opteron. Single-player, internet play, and server hosting all work fine. Epic did a great thing in releasing both 32-bit and 64-bit ports of the game for Linux.

[litbos]

I try to install ennemy-territory on my AMD64 and i have the same error , when i have a fedora core 3 X86_64 i use this command

linux32 sh et----.run

and it's work very well , did you know how to find the package linux32 or how to install enney territory without linux32.

i have try with the command --taerget but the program a file default.cfg

can you give me a solution

thanks

[Dylanby]

I got that error when trying to install Doom 3. I found this on the Linux Games forums:

I am running Debian unstable for the amd64 arch. The doom3 installer thought I had glibc2.0 installed but I really have 2.3.2. Thus the install failed. Here are my steps for working around this problem: sh doom3-linux-1.1.1282.x86.run --noexec --keep cd doom3-linux-1.1.1282 ln -s bin/Linux/amd64/glibc-2.1 bin/Linux/amd64/glibc-2.0 ./setup.sh

This worked, but led me to other problems:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=9256

[litbos]

when i have fedora core amd64 , it's work with this command

linux32 ./et----.run

i have compile linux32 source , but i don't work