Bug#559223: mesa-utils: utilities won't run without libgl1-mesa-dri installed

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 23:31:44 +0100
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:

> 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.).

Got it - but libgl1-mesa-glx still needs to be on the local machine?

Celejar
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