Fix for Alpha Centauri

[elver]

Alright. I spent the better part of my evening trying to figure this out and in order to save future gamers some headache, I've decided to post the guide here.

Game: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

Problem: The game works fine, except for 'Internet play' -- the game simply crashes when you click that.

Cause: Even though the game executables aren't dynamic (ldd won't show them as such), they do load external libraries and the root of all problems here is libc. Now, downgrading to libc-2.3.1 or earlier versions of 2.3.2 is a pain in the ass, although that'll fix the problem. Here's an easier solution.

Get yourself "libc-2.3.1.so". You can find it in older distros. Start by looking at old RPM repositories and grab the glibc 2.3.1 package, unpack it and extract that file.

Create the directory /oldlibs and move libc-2.3.1.so there.

Create a libc.so.6 symlink in /oldlibs pointing to libc-2.3.1.so:

[pianosaurus]

Just thought I should mention that you forgot the bang (!) in the script example. I have the game, but never tried it in linux. This might come in handy. Thank you.

EDIT: The bang after the hash (#) that is...
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[elver]

Yup. Forgot that. Thanks for spotting.