[plt-scheme] libGL.so

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Mon Jun 1 09:49:07 EDT 2009

On Jun  1, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> I'm trying to play Gobblet on Ubuntu using the Debian 4.1.5 package,
> but I get an error saying that libGL.so is not available. I have
> libGLU.so, but if I try to install the package that provides libGL,
> it gets rid of some of the other packages (including
> ubuntu-desktop).
> 
> Can someone with more Linux-fu than I explain the way out of this
> conundrum?

Do you have any other libGL.so library?  -- try

  ls /usr/lib/libGL.so*

and if you see one, then you can just create a symlink to the
version-less name, for example:

  cd /usr/lib
  ln -s libGL.so.1 libGL.so

(In 4.2 the sgl library will look for that version too, so this won't
be needed.)

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