See here:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=502748
As I wrote there, in the end I downloaded binary libs from Sourceforge. Maybe your friend could try if installing xlibmesa-gl and xlibmesa-glu is a better choice to get it up. He'll need the libSDL and maybe some other mumbo jumbo, too. He can check with "ldd /opt/dominions3/dom3" (or where ever he installed the game) if he has all the libs.