Problem with game > Help ID the problem?

[digitalhead]

I just found my old Uplink game CD and tried it on my laptop. I followed the readme.txt to install (Extract uplink.zip to directory > Change permissions on /uplink/uplink to be executable > Run)

Here's what the terminal comes up with:

digitalhead@d101:~$ games/uplink/uplink 
games/uplink/uplink: symbol lookup error: games/uplink/uplink: undefined symbol: __glutRoot
digitalhead@d101:~$ cd games/uplink
digitalhead@d101:~/games/uplink$ ./uplink
./uplink: symbol lookup error: ./uplink: undefined symbol: __glutRoot

What is "undefined symbol: __glutRoot" and is there a way for me to fix it or is the game just too old to be compatible with Hardy?

[Snowhog]

Re: Problem with game > Help ID the problem?

Check out Re: Getting Uplink running on Ubuntuforums.

[digitalhead]

Re: Problem with game > Help ID the problem?

Interesting. It attempts to startup after applying the patch, but when it opens, it immediately closes. The terminal comes up with:

digitalhead@d101:~$ uplink -graphics_fullscreen +game_debugstart 
/usr/lib/uplink
=============================
=              =
=    U P L I N K    =
=              =
=    Version 1.54    =
=   - R E L E A S E -   =
=              =
=============================

Version 1.54 (RELEASE)
Compiled on Nov 16 2006 at 20:46:23
(code-C)(code-M)(code-T)
Aborted

It did this from ~/games/uplink, and also when I copied it to /usr/lib/uplink and a symlink for /usr/bin/uplink to the game executable.

I'm not overly concerned if this game doesn't work to be honest, but out of curiosity, is there a similar (preferably open source and free) game available for me to kill time with? Uplink is kind of dated anyway.

[Snowhog]

Re: Problem with game > Help ID the problem?

On the Ubuntuforums post, did you read through it all? I saw posts about certain packages that needed to be installed? You can test to see if those are installed from a console with:

sudo apt-get install --simulate package_name