Re: loki games under woody

[oivvio polite <ol1@v10a.com>]

Aquila and Lance,
Thanks a lot to both of you.

It turned out glibc 2.2 was not the problem.
I was installing from iso images I made on an other machine (the machine I'm 
installing on is a subnote book with no cdrom) and mkisofs had decided to 
rename some files.

oivvio


On Tuesday 12 June 2001 15:00, Lance Simmons wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:36:34PM +0200, oivvio polite wrote:
> > Descent3 from www.lokigames.com states glic 2.1 as a requirement and
> > wan't install under woody (glibc 2.2)
> >
> > Has anyone found a workaround for this?
>
> There may be other ways to do it, but this works:
>
> 1. copy the cd files to a temporary directory.
>
> 2. in the bin/x86 directory of the cd files, make the following
>    symbolic link:
>
>      ln -s glibc-2.1 glibc-2.2
>
> 3. Run the installer from the temporary directory.
>
> The reason it won't install from the cd is that the installer
> asks your machine what glibc it has, and then looks on the cd
> for the appropriate binaries. The symbolic link tricks the
> installer into installing the glibc-2.1 binaries from the
> temporary directory.

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