Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:38:45PM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote: The bright ones here will be saying "Oh gods, he's going to ask about libGLU, isn't he?" Brandon wrote an excellent answer on 17 Sep, which is in the list archives. Briefly, to quote him: --- + In the meantime, users are going to have play games behind the back of the packaging system to satisfy any program that requires libGLU: - retrieve the appropriate mesag3 .deb package for your architecture - put it in a subdirectory of /tmp (not /tmp itself) - dpkg-deb -x mesag3-glide2_3.2.1-1_i386.deb . (or whatever the .deb is named) - become root, and return to this directory if necessary - cd usr/lib - as root, cp *libGLU* /usr/lib --- This works for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...
At 07:18 AM 10/31/00 -0800, Michael Epting wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:38:45PM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote: The bright ones here will be saying "Oh gods, he's going to ask about libGLU, isn't he?" Brandon wrote an excellent answer on 17 Sep, which is in the list archives. Briefly, to quote him: snip - as root, cp *libGLU* /usr/lib --- This works for me. I'll give this a try when I get home, but I think I'll follow another posters advice and use /usr/local/lib instead. I don't like to play games behind dpkg's back within /usr, /etc, /var, and so on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 07:18:48AM -0800, Michael Epting wrote: Brandon wrote an excellent answer on 17 Sep, which is in the list archives. Uh-oh... I hope you at least always paid your life insurance... Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:38:45PM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote: The bright ones here will be saying Oh gods, he's going to ask about libGLU, isn't he? Brandon wrote an excellent answer on 17 Sep, which is in the list archives. Briefly, to quote him: --- + In the meantime, users are going to have play games behind the back of the packaging system to satisfy any program that requires libGLU: - retrieve the appropriate mesag3 .deb package for your architecture - put it in a subdirectory of /tmp (not /tmp itself) - dpkg-deb -x mesag3-glide2_3.2.1-1_i386.deb . (or whatever the .deb is named) - become root, and return to this directory if necessary - cd usr/lib - as root, cp *libGLU* /usr/lib --- This works for me.
Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...
At 07:18 AM 10/31/00 -0800, Michael Epting wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:38:45PM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote: The bright ones here will be saying Oh gods, he's going to ask about libGLU, isn't he? Brandon wrote an excellent answer on 17 Sep, which is in the list archives. Briefly, to quote him: snip - as root, cp *libGLU* /usr/lib --- This works for me. I'll give this a try when I get home, but I think I'll follow another posters advice and use /usr/local/lib instead. I don't like to play games behind dpkg's back within /usr, /etc, /var, and so on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 07:18:48AM -0800, Michael Epting wrote: Brandon wrote an excellent answer on 17 Sep, which is in the list archives. Uh-oh... I hope you at least always paid your life insurance... Christian
Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...
* Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001030 18:39]: The bright ones here will be saying "Oh gods, he's going to ask about libGLU, isn't he?" What I *REALLY* want to know is why KDE (including konqueror) worked fine for several days! For a short time it didn't require libGLU? For a short time Branden supplied libGLU? I don't know. Both answers worry me. -- ``Oh Lord; Ooh you are so big; So absolutely huge; Gosh we're all really impressed down here, I can tell you.'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:43:56PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: * Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001030 18:39]: The bright ones here will be saying "Oh gods, he's going to ask about libGLU, isn't he?" What I *REALLY* want to know is why KDE (including konqueror) worked fine for several days! For a short time it didn't require libGLU? For a short time Branden supplied libGLU? I don't know. Both answers worry me. I think it's because Ivan E. Moore turned off GL support in some of the KDE libs for a while. And of course Konqueror is linked against the KDE libraries. -- G. Branden Robinson | joeyh oh my, it's a UP P III. Debian GNU/Linux| doogie dos it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | * joeyh runs dselect http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | Overfiend that ought to be sufficient :) PGP signature
Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...
* Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001030 18:39]: The bright ones here will be saying Oh gods, he's going to ask about libGLU, isn't he? What I *REALLY* want to know is why KDE (including konqueror) worked fine for several days! For a short time it didn't require libGLU? For a short time Branden supplied libGLU? I don't know. Both answers worry me. -- ``Oh Lord; Ooh you are so big; So absolutely huge; Gosh we're all really impressed down here, I can tell you.''
Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:38:45PM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote: What I want to know is if anyone knows of a work-around until the situation is fixed properly. I suspect that this has been answered before, but I can't seem to find it. I extracted libGLU.so.1.1.030201 from the mesag3 package, put it in /usr/local/lib and then ran ldconfig. David -- David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I am a stupid idiot for posting a FAQ, but...
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:43:56PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: * Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001030 18:39]: The bright ones here will be saying Oh gods, he's going to ask about libGLU, isn't he? What I *REALLY* want to know is why KDE (including konqueror) worked fine for several days! For a short time it didn't require libGLU? For a short time Branden supplied libGLU? I don't know. Both answers worry me. I think it's because Ivan E. Moore turned off GL support in some of the KDE libs for a while. And of course Konqueror is linked against the KDE libraries. -- G. Branden Robinson | joeyh oh my, it's a UP P III. Debian GNU/Linux| doogie dos it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | * joeyh runs dselect http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | Overfiend that ought to be sufficient :) pgpqhfST4cvDK.pgp Description: PGP signature
