Category Archives: Debian

a month on

Posted on 2009/06/16 Tue by rob

Well, it’s just over a month since I last posted and the PC is still running.
I’ve updated the motherboard BIOS once but it hasn’t improved the situation with slow Windows installation, nor with the on-board LAN chip not … Continue reading →

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Debian: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL

Posted on 2009/05/04 Mon by rob

While building MythTV svn trunk in Debian unstable, I stumbled across this error message:
“/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL”
$ ls -l /usr/lib | grep GL showed that indeed, libGL.so was not present. I was a little confused as I had libgl1-mesa-dev installed. … Continue reading →

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