[Plib-users] Re: The problems with glut - part II

[Sebastian U. <ud...@ha...>]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, _l...@li... (Lo'oRiS il Kabukimono) wrote:
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:53:09 +0100
> To: plib <pli...@li...>
> From: _l...@li... (Lo'oRiS il Kabukimono)
> CC: Steve Baker <sjb...@ai...>, Sebastian Ude <ud...@ha...>
> Subject: The problems with glut - part II
> 
> - i uninstalled the MDK packages
> 
> - i have these Mesa packages installed:

Good.


> - i checked in /usr/lib and /usr/include/GL and there *IS* glut:
> 
> [looris@lano] ll /usr/lib|igrep glut
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       352386 ago 28 22:25 libglut.a
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          733 ago 28 22:25 libglut.la
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 gen 13 02:22 libglut.so ->
> libglut.so.3.7.0
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 gen 13 02:21 libglut.so.3 ->
> libglut.so.3.7.0
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       284895 ago 28 22:25 libglut.so.3.7.0
> 
> [looris@lano] ll /usr/include/GL/|igrep glut
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        29869 ago 28 22:24 glut.h
> 
> - i searched anyway the opengl and the mesa site: in opengl i didn't find
> any download in the download section (only links, not related to glut);
> in mesa site i found 2 rpm: glu-1.3-1.g++-2.95.i386.rpm and
> oss-opengl-glu-20000925-1.i386.rpm, but conflicts were reported when i
> tried to install them...

Again ... *PLEASE* do not install packages that don't come from your
distribution unless you are absolutely sure what you are doing.

The GL, GLU and GLUT libraries *are* in the Red Hat Mesa packages - there
is *no* need to install anything else. Simply do not mess up your system !

Try recompiling PLIB and see whether it works.

If it does not, you might have messed up the files of the RedHat Mesa
packages by installing foreign packages above them. In this case, try to
deinstall the Mesa packages (ignore any warnings you might get) and install
them again afterwards.

We surely will find your problem, but it's very unlikely that you will get
something fixed by installing every package that gets into your hands ...


- Sebastian