<div dir="ltr">Let me be clear that I DO understand how to fix it. <div><br></div><div>One has to get the library, install it, and place a link where it is expecting it,</div><div>in my case "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" to the place of installation. Most people</div><div>do not need to get it, because copies of it are in directories under gnome, kde, etc ...</div><div><br></div><div>What I do NOT understand is why TL installation would not do the right thing </div><div>here, which would be to compile against a library in </div><div><div><br></div><div> /usr/local/texlive/2024/lib/x86_64-linux/</div><div><br></div><div>and then build a sym-link from that dir to the best version available.</div></div><div><br></div><div>It builds it against a directory where the library it is not -- it could easily build</div><div>it against one that TL has control of.</div><div><br></div><div>And if the library cannot be found, a message should be added to the post</div><div>install notes.</div><div><br></div><div>Paulo Ney</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 3:24 PM Paulo Ney de Souza <<a href="mailto:pauloney@gmail.com">pauloney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">David,<div><br></div><div>Is that what one has to do? Because it does not work on Debian out of the box either.</div><div><br></div><div>I looked into the install notes and there is nothing about it either. Is this the only binary</div><div>that needs post-install prepping?</div><div><br></div><div>Paulo Ney</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 11:00 AM David Carlisle <<a href="mailto:d.p.carlisle@gmail.com" target="_blank">d.p.carlisle@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>it works at <a href="http://texlive.net" target="_blank">texlive.net</a> (debian) texlive 2024<br></div><div><br></div><div>I think I got libglut.so.3 via apt from</div><div><br></div><div>freeglut3/oldoldstable,now 2.8.1-3 amd64 [installed]</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://texlive.net/run?%5Cdocumentclass%7Barticle%7D%0A%5Cusepackage%5Binline%5D%7Basymptote%7D%0A%5Cbegin%7Bdocument%7D%0A%5Cbegin%7Basy%7D%5Bwidth=%5Cthe%5Clinewidth,inline=true%5D%0Adraw((0,0)--(2,2));%0A%5Cend%7Basy%7D%0A%0A%5Cend%7Bdocument%7D" target="_blank">https://texlive.net/run?%5Cdocumentclass%7Barticle%7D%0A%5Cusepackage%5Binline%5D%7Basymptote%7D%0A%5Cbegin%7Bdocument%7D%0A%5Cbegin%7Basy%7D%5Bwidth=%5Cthe%5Clinewidth,inline=true%5D%0Adraw((0,0)--(2,2));%0A%5Cend%7Basy%7D%0A%0A%5Cend%7Bdocument%7D</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 14 Sept 2024 at 18:33, Paulo Ney de Souza <<a href="mailto:pauloney@gmail.com" target="_blank">pauloney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">On Ubuntu I get:<div><br></div><div><div>$ which asy<br>/usr/local/texlive/2024/bin/x86_64-linux/asy<br>$ asy<br>asy: error while loading shared libraries: libglut.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<br></div><div><br></div><div>Updating the package with "tlmgr" did not change anything. </div><div><br></div><div>I reported this issue some 8 years ago:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2016-September/039286.html" target="_blank">https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2016-September/039286.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>it was fixed for a little while, and it worked with a -V flag or latexmk, but now, not even that works.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Paulo Ney</div></div>
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