How to install Introversion’s Uplink in Ubuntu 9.10 (or higher)
Quite a while ago I purchased Uplink (and Defcon) for Linux through the Introversion website. Uplink worked at the time (Ubuntu 8.10) but somewhere along the way Canonical removed the libgtk1.2 libraries from the Ubuntu repositories. This presents a problem when installing the game in later versions of Ubuntu.
sh uplink-complete-1.54DOWNLOAD.sh
complains
Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing Uplink complete 1.54DOWNLOAD............................................................................................ .setup9739: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I found the solution at the Introversion forums, written by forum member pl3w5y.
Download the following deb files. I prefer to use the command line.
wget http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gtk+1.2/libgtk1.2_1.2.10-18.1build2_i386.deb wget http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/glib1.2/libglib1.2ldbl_1.2.10-19build1_i386.deb wget http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gtk+1.2/libgtk1.2-common_1.2.10-18.1build2_all.deb
You can swap out the ‘ca’ part of the url with ‘us’ or whatever your Ubuntu repository country code might be.
Now, inside the directory you downloaded them to, run
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
And that’s it. Now re-run the Uplink installer and the game should install fine.
Hey Guys – Just wanted to update you on a much easier way to install this, without the GUI installer, thereby bypassing the need for installing depricated libs.
From: http://forums.introversion.co.uk/uplink/viewtopic.php?t=38670
This example is for 64bit Linux, note that the .sh file is here called “uplink.sh”, but has a longer name when downloaded from the introversion website, which you should use instead.
cd /home/joeuser
mkdir uplinkinstall
cd uplinkinstall
sh ../uplink.sh –tar xvf
setup.data/bin/Linux/amd64/setup
For 32-bit install, exchange the last line with: setup.data/bin/Linux/x86/setup
- Magnus
Very cool. Thank you Magnus.
I found that after running the command
setup.data/bin/Linux/amd64/setup
that pressing ‘page down’ or the down arrow didn’t allow me to scroll through the Terms and Agreement text. Pressing the ‘d’ key scrolled me down to the ‘Do you accept? y/n’ text, though.
And, of course, if you want to install a ‘shortcut’ (symlink) in your terminal so you can type ‘uplink’ to run the game, run the setup.data/… command as ‘sudo’.
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