Bug#559223: mesa-utils: utilities won't run without libgl1-mesa-dri installed
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 17:20:42 -0500, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 23:09:35 +0100
> Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 16:33:24 -0500, Celejar wrote:
> > > None of the four binaries included in this package will run on my system
> > > without libgl1-mesa-dri installed - they all complain about missing GLX:
> > >
> > > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> > > Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
> > >
> > > and similar. I suppose that there's a missing dependency here?
> > >
> > No.
>
> Explain, please?
>
These programs want to talk to an X11 server with the GLX extension.
That's not something you express in terms of package dependencies (that
X server can very well be on a different machine, e.g.).
Cheers,
Julien
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