Help: Google Earth can't find libGL.so.1

[John Vetterli]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Walter Dnes wrote:
> waltdnes at m3000 ~ $ googleearth
> ./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>  I do so have libGL.so.1
> [m3000][root][~] find / -name libGL.so*
> /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so.1
> /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so.1.2
> /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so
> libGL.so.1.2 is the real file, with the other 2 being symlinks to it.
> How do I get the file recognized?

Easy way: as root, add /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib to your 
/etc/ld.so.conf file, then run "ldconfig".

You can also add /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
environment variable.

HTH
JV
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