[mythtv] Re: Debian packages 0.7-12

[Mark Pitman]

I installed xlibmesa3, and I did have xlibmesa3-gl installed. It all works now. Thanks for all the help.

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Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> # not sure if this is the right binary package for the bug, but it's closer
> reassign 178698 xfree86
> retitle 178698 Dependencies not correctly fulfilled for packages depending on xlibmesa3 | libgl1
> thanks
> 
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:38:36PM +0100, Stefan Frank wrote:
> 
> 
>>But if you use the debian-packaged version of the qt3-mt libs, this
>>shouldn't be case. I had the same problem yesterday night, and
>>it was due to a missing package dependency (see Bug #178698)
>>
>>What solved this problem for me was to install xlibmesa3-glu debian
>>package.
> 
> 
> This is likely the problem, then.  I do happen to have xlibmesa3-glu
> installed for other reasons, which is presumably why it works for me.
> 
> My assessment is this:
> 
> - Packages (such as libqt3-mt-mysql) were linked against libGLU
> - These packages received shlibs dependencies of xlibmesa3 | libgl1
> - xlibmesa3 split into xlibmesa3-gl and xlibmesa3-glu, and xlibmesa3 became
>   a metapackage depending on both of those libraries, to provide
>   compatibility
> - However, xlibmesa3-gl Provides: libgl1, so it (wrongly) satisfies the
>   dependency on its own, without xlibmesa3, even though it does not contain
>   libGLU
> 
> Mark Pitman: if you have xlibmesa3-gl installed, but not xlibmesa3 or
> xlibmesa3-glu, this will confirm my hypothesis and installing xlibmesa3-glu
> should fix your problem.
>