I'm running fedora 10 and I get the following error when I run foldit.
[adler@office01 Foldit]$ ./Foldit
Foldit Error: The game has previously not started up correctly.
If this problem persists, please install the latest version.
Foldit Error: Could not load library: libglut.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
Do you have glut installed? Search for freeglut in your package manager, install it and try again.
I get the exact same error message:
Foldit Error: Could not load library: libglut.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
It just happens to be that I also have the latest available version of freeglut installed.
"Package freeglut-2.4.0-14.fc9.x86_64 already installed and latest version"
Could it be that the problem only affects x64 users?
The error message seems to indicate libglut.so.3 is not provided by your freeglut. Can you check which version it provides?
Some quick grepping tells me that I have the 64-bit version of the required file.
[alexander@localhost usr]$ find | grep libglut
./lib64/libglut.so.3
./lib64/libglut.so.3.8.0
After creating a symlink to /usr/lib64/libglut.so.3 in /lib/ I got the following error:
Foldit Error: Could not load library: libglut.so.3: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64.
It seems obvious to me that I need to install the 32-bit version of the library. Unfortunately I do not know how to do that. Maybe someone who is more familiar with Fedora or GNU/Linux in general could help out?
Turns out I did know how to install the 32-bit version.
[alexander@localhost ~]$ su
Password: -
[root@localhost alexander]# yum install freeglut-2.4.0-14.fc9.i386
This allowed me to run Foldit and see a window. My luck ends there since all it does is show "Contacting server to check for updates…" and then crash with the following printed to the console:
freeglut Unable to create direct context rendering for window ''
This may hurt performance.
Segmentation fault
I have not yet attempted to find out if this is addressed by some other bug report. I will do that now though.
Sorry you are having all this trouble. This bit from the FAQ might help:
Q: I am using a 64-bit Linux distribution and am unable to log in or contact the server in any way, I have tried many times and keep getting error messages. A: You may need to install lib32nss-mdns. Please search for it in your package manager.
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