New Release (2025-02-19)

Started by apetrides

spvincent Lv 1

I can't run Foldit on Linux now:

svincent@svux2:~/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.

spvincent Lv 1

Tx for the replies.

I'm using Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS.

i tried executing

ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglut.so libglut.so.3

in the console prior to attempting to run Foldit and got this error message

ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglut.so libglut.so.3
ln: failed to create symbolic link 'libglut.so.3': File exists

So on the one hand libglut.so.3 exists and on the other it doesn't.

rmoretti Staff Lv 1

You may need to execute the ln -s command within the cmp-binary-* directory. (The downside of this is that you'd have to do it each time Foldit updates. – We'll look into ways of avoiding that in the future.)

andrewxc Lv 1

Hi, new to this particular command. I ran the "ln -s" command without specifying a target, since you didn't specify one. Is the target the Foldit executable in the parent directory of the cmp-binary* directory? Thanks.

rmoretti Staff Lv 1

@andrewxc The full command is ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglut.so libglut.so.3 (listed above). Run this while in the cmp-binary directory under the directory Foldit is in. (If you have multiple cmp-binary directories, you need to run it in the most recent one. It shouldn't hurt to run it in all of them, though.)

Note that this is only for Linux machines, and only if you're getting the "Could not load library: libglut.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory." error when starting Foldit.

andrewxc Lv 1

I am getting a “Command not found” when trying to run FoldIt for the first time.
Links are now in place, at least… Though I may need to do that again after this has been fixed.