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I'm trying to play some Humble Indie Bundle (HIB) games, but I'm getting errors with Aquaria and Penumbra: Overture that are related to the libGL.so.1 file.

Aquaria gives this error on launch:

Message: SDL_GL_LoadLibrary Error: Failed loading libGL.so.1

And Penumbra: Overture gives this error on launch:

./penumbra.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I know that the file libGL.so.1 does exist (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1). From past errors like this, I'm guessing that you need to symlink the library to another directory, but I can't figure out which one.

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This is probably occurring because you are running the 64-bit version of Ubuntu and those particular HIB games only come in 32-bit flavor.

Try installing the 32-bit versions of the main OpenGL libraries (using multiarch):

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386

On versions of Ubuntu earlier than 11.04 "Natty", create a 32-bit chroot instead.

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You should copy or symlink it to

/usr/lib/libGL.so.1

However, please make sure, that your graphics driver is installed correctly, the libGL.so.1 belongs to the mesa driver. If you are using another driver (e.g. proprietary nvidia or ati drivers), you should however find the correct library for this driver. Usually reinstalling the driver should help or at least bring up a helping error message.

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  • I have only an Intel integrated card, which is why I'm using the mesa driver (or whatever the default is, I haven't touched the graphics card configuration). In any case, I tried running the command ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.s0.1, but it had no discernable effect.
    – Samir Unni
    Nov 19, 2011 at 21:10
  • can you check whether opengl works at all (glxinfo and test with glxgears)?
    – Michael K
    Nov 21, 2011 at 7:12
  • Both glxinfo and glxgears work fine.
    – Samir Unni
    Nov 22, 2011 at 13:00
  • okay, next please try the following: LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib" ./penumbra.bin (it is one command!!)
    – Michael K
    Nov 22, 2011 at 13:02
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I just had the same problem although I had the 32-bit libraries installed. Turned out /etc/alternatives/i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf was still pointing to an old fglrx install and I had to run

sudo update-alternatives --set i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/ld.so.conf
sudo ldconfig

manually to select the mesa GL implementation.

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