Re: loki SM Alpha centauri

[Deidre Nair <deidre.nair@btinternet.com>]

hi,

the installer installs the x86 version. i managed to extract the 
smac*.run file
and look inside it. there is a directory called smac-6.0a-ppc.

it has a ppc static binary for something called loki-patch which seg 
faults when run.
i think the problem is here . because the binaries are not being patched.

solution:  patch it by hand

chmod 755 smac-install-ppc
./smac-install-ppc --target  /tmp/smac

install it , lets say to /usr/local/smac.then

cd /tmp/smac/smac-6.0a-ppc
./bin/Linux/ppc/loki_patch patch.dat /usr/local/smac

works for me now.
thx for your info.
cheers

Brad Boyer wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 12:04:17PM +0100, Deidre Nair wrote:
>  
>
> > i bought Alpha centauri planetary pack from loki when it came out.
> > I was wondering it there is any way of getting it running on debian 
> > Sarge/PPC
> >
> > I have a powerbook G3 and i'm running sarge snapshot from a few weeks ago.
> > Now i installed loki_update and loki_uninstall and found a planetmirror 
> > archive for
> > smac 6.0a which is supposed to run on PPC. that installer runs OK but i get
> > "not a dynamic executable" error when i try and run smacpack or smac.
> > readme says it needs glibc.
> >
> > any help would be apreciated
> >    
>
> My first suggestion would be to find some of the binaries that got
> installed by this installer and run file and ldd on them. This will
> confirm what file format and architecture they are and what dynamic
> libraries are needed.
>
> Based on that error, I would guess that one of the x86 binaries got
> installed by mistake. I know I got it working at one point, but I
> seem to recall that I had to put some effort into getting the ppc
> patch to install. I'll try to look for the copy of the patch I got
> at that point and see if it works for me.
>
> 	Brad Boyer
> 	flar@allandria.com
>
>
>