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cothrige

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Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 4

libGLU.so.1?

I recently installed Arch Linux 0.7.2 and it really went very smoothly.  Being a Slackware user for a couple of years it was not too different for my tastes.  However, I have run into a difficulty for which no amount of google searching seems to help.

In setting up my printer using the hplip driver I noticed a comment mentioning the hp-toolbox.  This intrigued me and so I attempted to start it up, and was met with this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hp-toolbox", line 37, in ?
    import base.async_qt as async
  File "/usr/share/hplip/base/async_qt.py", line 81, in ?
    from qt import *
ImportError: libGLU.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have an nvidia card, and used pacman to install nvidia and nvidia-utils, which seemed the only relevant packages I could find as far as my video card went.  I have searched and read other pages but have yet to find just what package may contain this particular item, and if it is available from pacman.  It also seems that xscreensaver kicked back some errors regarding this very library.  Is there a missing dependency which pacman is not catching?  Or have I goofed something up?  Is this a library I should have and can get from somewhere?

Any help is greatly appreciated,

Patrick

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: libGLU.so.1?

$ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1
/usr/lib/libGLU.so.1 is owned by mesa 6.4.2-1

Do you have mesa installed?  You should. 

cothrige

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Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 4

Re: libGLU.so.1?

Very strange indeed.  Yes, I did have it.  And when I ran pacman -S mesa just to be sure, it told me it was up to date and asked if I wanted to upgrade anyway.  But I reinstalled it anyway, and that worked.  Many thanks for the information.

Patrick