Re: LibGL

[Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>]

Leopold Palomo Avellaneda writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have installed a new etch rc in a box with the nvidia-glx drivers. All 
> works, but I have found that I don't have libGL.so or symbolic link:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      21 2007-02-14 21:58 libGLcore.so.1 -> 
> libGLcore.so.1.0.8776
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7853184 2007-01-05 05:37 libGLcore.so.1.0.8776
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      17 2007-02-14 21:58 libGL.so.1 -> 
> libGL.so.1.0.8776
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  735592 2007-01-05 05:37 libGL.so.1.0.8776
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  920580 2007-01-03 18:05 libGLU.a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      11 2007-02-26 20:31 libGLU.so -> libGLU.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      20 2007-02-14 21:17 libGLU.so.1 -> 
> libGLU.so.1.3.060501
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  520912 2007-01-03 18:05 libGLU.so.1.3.060501
>
>
> so, I cannot link with libGL.so,
>
> please could you confirm it if is a bug or maybe I have done some mistake ....

I suspect your mistake is that you have not installed the appropriate
(nvidia-glx-dev?) development package.  On Debian, *.so symlinks are
part of the -dev package and not the library or executable package.

Michael Poole