Hi folks, i have a new problem with sim city 3000 for linux!

when i try to install the game, the setup script tells me that i don't have the correct glibc version.


i use debian sarge and it's up to date. someone here who solve the problem???
my system:

ooOOooh, i managed to get Sim City 3000 running last night, lemme go through the motions of what i had to do, and hopefully it will help.


first off, if you havent allready, grab the latest update patch from here: ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/lokigames/updates/sc3u/

once you run the update, sc3k will complain again, after much google, i eventually discovered the way to launch it without it complaining is:

but, obviously, if your sc3u is in a different location, point it to the right place. apparently some people have had better success using 2.2.4 in the assume part.

hope this helps, if the game still craps out, im sure we can get it working. unfortunately it would seem that loki are long dead, so there doesnt seem to be any support from them anymore.

oh, and just a thought..... a *lot* of people seem to have had problems with the sound (once they get the game running), apparently you have to kill esd so the game will find alsa. havent tried it yet, but we will see how it goes

my problem isn't the start of the game itself. my problem is, that the setup program doesn't start. i allways get the error i've posted in the first post. is there another setup program for the nativ linux version of sim city 3k???

bah!

im showing my noobness by just skimming your post, my apologies

as for glibc.... iirc, its up to version 2.3.4 or similar, if the installer sees you as having 2.1, why not try updating to the latest version of glibc from here http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html and see if it likes it more when thats installed?

the problem is, that my version is to new for the setup utility. and with an older version my other programs won't run. but you can try to compile and install another version of glibc than the one that comes with your distribution.

Did you try just creating a symlink for the older glibc pointing to the newer one???

Hello, I can get sim city 3000 to run, but I have no sound. I followed the games readme instructions to select esd to handle the sound, but this doesn't help. I am currently running ALSA. Any tips? Thanks.

which linux do you use? is it debian sarge? if yes, please tell me, how did you get it installed.

i had solve the problem with the sound with also oss emulation enabled. but now i can't get the installer to run.

I use ubuntu linux.

Visit this thread for installation and patching information:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...=sim+city+3000

Can you explain how you set up OSS emulation? Thank you.

first you have to install the modconf to follow my instructions. you need to be root to install it.

~$>su
#>apt-get install modconf
#>modconf

1. use your courser keys to go to the 'kernel/sound/core/oss' line and hit enter.
2. move to the 'snd-mixer-oss' line and hit enter. than there should be a '+' after the entry.
3. repeat step 2 for the 'snd-pcm-oss' entry, if there is no '+'.
4. press enter at the first line to go back to the main list.
5. go down to the 'kernel/sound/core/seq/oss' line and enter the entry with enter.
6. make sure that there is a '+' in the 'snd-seq-oss' line.
7. exit by pressing enter in the first line and repeat this in the main menu.

now you should have oss emultaion enabled.

that's how it works with debian and ubuntu should work the same way.

Found the problem and solution by mayself. The problem was that I tryed to install the game from an iso image (no illegal copy), because my
notebooks cd-rom drive is a little bit damaged.

I made the iso image with mkisofs but I forgot to include the joilet, so the file- and pathnames were not long enough. After making a new iso image with joilet extension and mounting it as a loop device everything works.

Was there ever a fix for the orginal problem? I'm getting the same thing (only I'm on x86_64).

# sh ./setup.sh
This installation doesn't support glibc-2.1 on Linux / x86_64

I don't know how to symlink/emulate the older glibc if that's the solution - if it is, can you provide a link on where I can look this up?

Thanks.

There is a similar problem with the cold war demo installer and amd64 machines.

Try to copy the whole cd to the harddrive and than do the following:
Where sc3u is the directory, where you copy the cd-content to.
I don't know if it works, because I don't have an amd64.

Edit: Insert the link to the Cold War forum

I just got it only a few seconds before your post.

There are two solutions to this:
1) Run "linux32 sh ./setup.sh". To patch, do "linux32 sh ./sc3u-2.0a-x86.run --keep". To play, use "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 /usr/local/bin/sc3u".

2) I won't even start explaining this one. It involves getting the Loki_installer source, copying directories, etc, etc. Real messy. Stick with the first one.

So, it appears to be running. I didn't encounter the sound bug on startup that people mentioned, but I'll keep an eye on it. And apparently I had no actual glibc compatibility problems, it was stricly an x86_64 compatibility problem.

Now that I have that running, anyone know how to make this game run in a window as opposed to full screen? Normally I wouldn't mind, but it assumes my first head on the twinview setup, and the monitor it loads on is old and kind of fuzzy. If I could get it windowed I could drag it to the primary (which is on my second head -- really wish I could switch that).

LOL - Alt-Enter does the trick for windowing. Didn't really expect it to be that simple.