That issue will probably also hurt the officially supported Ubuntu versions. Are you sure there is no libc upgrade available for Mint 18.3 without upgrading to 19.1 ?

Maybe this is a start:
http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-glib-2-36-3-on-ubuntu-and-linux-mint/

or downloading glibc here :

https://pkgs.org/download/glibc

Thanks. Before I start fiddling with the default install of my system, I will wait for an answer from the developer who I am in contact with about this issue.

Great. Keep us updated how that goes!

I just wanted to let you know that I took a slightly different approach to the one stated here. I removed everything from the libs folder except for libGLEW.so.2.0 and libfmod.so.10. Everything else my system could easily provide (Arch Linux). Your mileage may vary of course, you may need to install some libs.

I do not have any issues with cut-off text. Also no segfault in 2.5 hours, but a deadlock situation when speaking to a character (caught in dialog but the PDA was gone and couldn't do anything but kill the game).

The font still isn't good, but I don't think this is a Linux issue. I think it's just a horrible typeface with very very inconsistent characters. I suppose the plist file is supposed to correct the letter spacing using offsets or something but I don't know whether that works as intended. If you look at the dosfont.png you'll see that it's quite a mess anyway. I edited the png to make some letters more consistent and readable.

My question is when we'll get the updated versions. Windows is on 1.0.2 now, we still have only 1.0.

Good question, I really don't know, never had that issue.
The attached screenshot is with my 'hacked' font where I just modified the PNG and adjusted it for readability.
I did have some crashes in the meanwhile. No point reporting it since I'm still at 1.0 while Win/Mac is at 1.0.3 with a host of bug fixes.

Too bad, it doesn't.

Running Objects In Space
./ois: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by ./ois)
./ois: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.22' not found (required by ./ois)

I recommend trying to add those missing libraries one by one, using your distribution's repository where possible or the ones from the libs foider otherwise.

Yay. Can't wait, but have to.

I am currently fiddling with the font image file and trying out some altered characters for readability. I am not sure if an altered file would be allowed to be shared, though.

I think you misunderstand the error messages (which is understandable as they are not informative enough). I have those libraries installed in my system, they are just not the correct version. Therefor, the libraries provided by the developer should solve this, but they might still be using other libraries they did not provide which are using my libraries and are incompatible with theirs, probably giving these problems. I hope you understand my rambling :-)

Anyway... looking forward to the 1.0.4 update. I hope it fixes all known issues!

Still getting the segmentation fault

./runois.sh: line 3: 29155 Segmentation fault LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${PWD}/libs ./ois
./ois: error while loading shared libraries: libfmod.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Even tried running the executables in /game directory to ensure $PWD is correct, or forcing the environment variable. Doesn't work.

Executing libc.so.6 and libfmod.so.10 included in the installation would result in Segmentation fault.

Same here...

OK. I moved the 3 files and the game runs.

The font still has problems.

And the version says 1.0.3, in the main menu.

It's not 1.0.4.

Has there been a mix up?

Edit: For information, here's what the fonts look like in the game. (Screenshot)

Edit: For the fun of it, if you do "ldd ois" in the game directory, you get:

linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd3ddfe000)
libfmod.so.10 => not found
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fa8ace65000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007fa8acd24000)
libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrandr.so.2 (0x00007fa8acb19000)
libXxf86vm.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXxf86vm.so.1 (0x00007fa8ac913000)
libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXinerama.so.1 (0x00007fa8ac90c000)
libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXcursor.so.1 (0x00007fa8ac8ff000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fa8ac8f5000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00007fa8ac8af000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fa8ac691000)
libpng16.so.16 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007fa8ac658000)
libGLEW.so.2.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLEW.so.2.0 (0x00007fa8ac3c1000)
libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 (0x00007fa8ac32d000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fa8ac30c000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fa8ac188000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fa8ac005000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fa8abfeb000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fa8abe28000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fa8ae79a000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007fa8abdfe000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 (0x00007fa8abbec000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1 (0x00007fa8ab9e2000)
libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXfixes.so.3 (0x00007fa8ab7dc000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007fa8ab71e000)
libexpat.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007fa8ab6e1000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fa8ab6d8000)
libGLX.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX.so.0 (0x00007fa8ab6a4000)
libGLdispatch.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLdispatch.so.0 (0x00007fa8ab5e7000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007fa8ab3e1000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007fa8ab1db000)
libbsd.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x00007fa8ab1c1000)

You can actually delete or move away all the lib files except for libfmod.so.10 (which is not open source; it is proprietary fmod). The game will run as long as you have the libraries installed in your system.