Font Not Loading

[hypersonic]

I've encountered a problem in Spring (installed on Fedora 8 using spring-installer_76b1_2-3-2008.run) with font displaying. It seems that some font isn't loading properly, and each character shows up as a rectangle. Here's the complete terminal output of a run:

12:23:06 AM: OnInit ( )
12:23:06 AM: _LoadMapInfoExCache ( )
12:23:06 AM: No cache file found.
12:23:06 AM: FreeUnitSyncLib ( )
12:23:06 AM: LoadUnitSyncLib ( )
12:23:06 AM: Loading from: /usr/local/games/Spring/unitsync.so
12:23:07 AM: Error: libGLEW.so.1.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
12:23:07 AM: Error: wxDynamicLibrary created, but not loaded!
12:23:07 AM: runtime error: Couldn't load the unitsync library

(springlobby:8916): Pango-WARNING **: pango_shape called with bad font, expect ugly output

(springlobby:8916): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_glyph_extents called with null font argument, expect ugly output

(springlobby:8916): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_metrics called with null font argument, expect ugly output
12:23:07 AM: OnTabsChanged ( )
12:23:07 AM: LoadMinimap ( )
12:23:07 AM: GetNumMaps ( )
12:23:07 AM: runtime error: Unitsync not loaded.
12:23:07 AM: GetNumMods ( )
12:23:07 AM: runtime error: Unitsync not loaded.
12:23:07 AM: Ui created
12:23:07 AM: LoadMinimap ( )
12:23:07 AM: LoadMinimap ( )
12:23:07 AM: LoadMinimap ( )

(springlobby:8916): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height 14

(springlobby:8916): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height 14

(springlobby:8916): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height 14
12:23:07 AM: LoadMinimap ( )
12:23:07 AM: LoadMinimap ( )
12:23:07 AM: first time startup

(springlobby:8916): Pango-WARNING **: pango_cairo_font_get_scaled_font called with bad font, expect ugly output
12:23:11 AM: FreeUnitSyncLib ( )
12:23:11 AM: LoadUnitSyncLib ( )
12:23:11 AM: Loading from: /usr/local/games/Spring/unitsync.so
12:23:11 AM: Error: libGLEW.so.1.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
12:23:11 AM: Error: wxDynamicLibrary created, but not loaded!
12:23:11 AM: runtime error: Couldn't load the unitsync library
12:23:11 AM: OnUnitSyncReloaded ( )
12:23:11 AM: Reloading join tab
12:23:11 AM: OnUnitSyncReloaded ( )
12:23:11 AM: Battle list tab reloaded
12:23:11 AM: Join tab updated
12:23:11 AM: Reloading Singleplayer tab
12:23:11 AM: OnUnitSyncReloaded ( )
12:23:11 AM: Reloading map list
12:23:11 AM: GetNumMaps ( )
12:23:11 AM: runtime error: Unitsync not loaded.
12:23:11 AM: Reloading mod list
12:23:11 AM: GetNumMods ( )
12:23:11 AM: runtime error: Unitsync not loaded.
12:23:11 AM: Reloading minimap
12:23:11 AM: LoadMinimap ( )
12:23:11 AM: Singleplayer tab updated
12:23:11 AM: GetSpringVersion ( )
12:23:11 AM: runtime error: Unitsync not loaded.
12:23:15 AM: LoadMinimap ( )
12:23:15 AM: OnPaint ( )
12:23:15 AM: LoadMinimap ( )
12:23:15 AM: OnPaint ( )
12:23:15 AM: LoadMinimap ( )
12:23:15 AM: OnPaint ( )
12:23:20 AM: Warning: no mod selected
12:23:21 AM: OnPaint ( )
12:23:27 AM: OnExit ( )
12:23:27 AM: FreeUnitSyncLib ( )
12:23:27 AM: FreeUnitSyncLib ( )
12:23:27 AM: _SaveMapInfoExCache ( )

[koshi]

12:23:07 AM: Error: libGLEW.so.1.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

there's your main problem for the moment, get glew via your package manager.

if problems persist, ask in #springlobby or #newbies for help

sidenote: i usually don't recommend that installer, if you can't get spring packages for your distro, you're better off installing from source imo