Blender libGl.so.14 not found

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

andy wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Tring to install Blender on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE (found that this 
> version works with the dreaded Ali chipset that kills all other 
> distros with the contigmalloc1 error on installation in case that can 
> help anyone)
> Current problem I have is that when I try to use Blender (installed 
> from the ports) I get the error
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libGL.so.14" not found
> after googling found this link 
> http://news.gw.com/freebsd.questions/160822
> which says
>
>  I assume you've already made the following
> links under /usr/X11R6/lib/
>
> libGL.so.14 -> libGL.so.1
> libGLU.so.14 -> libGLU.so.1
>
> OK, willing to give this a try, just don't know what links this refers 
> to - would this be a symlink ? eg: ln -s /usr/x11R6/lib/libGl.so.14 
> /libGl.so.1 ? I tried  cding to the dir and typing exactly what I saw 
> above, no good.
> Please reply to me direct as I am not on the list.
> Thank you in advance for all replies.
>
> Andy


Yeah, looks like a symlink.  If your syntax
is good, that should do it.  I'm too cautious,
I'd just cd to that dir and do "ln -s thisfile thatfile"...

Kevin Kinsey