Missing header files (requires reinstall)

[WW]

Binary package hint: mesa-common-dev

This report is for the package mesa-common-dev in dapper.

I had mesa-common-dev installed, but the *.h header files that are part of the package were not there. They showed up after doing a reinstall of the package. The same problem has been reported in the forums:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=291527
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=235000

I upgraded to dapper from breezy; my breezy install was from the install CD.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

The OpenGL/GLU header files should be installed if you do:

  sudo apt-get install libgl-dev libglu-dev

Does that solve the issue?

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

The forums pages seem to indicate this might be an upgrade issue; in that the header files are now provided a separate packages.

[WW (wweckesser)]

I can't find libgl-dev or libglu-dev. They certainly don't exist in breezy or dapper.

Here's a longer version of what happened to my system:

I am using dapper; I upgraded from breezy a week or so ago. Yesterday, the files /usr/include/GL/gl.h (and a few other header files) which are supposed to be provided by mesa-common-dev were not there, even though mesa-common-dev was installed. In Synaptic, the header files did not show up in the listing of Installed Files for mesa-common-dev. After reinstalling mesa-common-dev, the header files (gl.h, etc) were installed, and Synaptic showed the file names in the list of Installed Files.

mesa-common-dev was originally installed during the upgrade from breezy (according to packages.ubuntu.com, mesa-common-dev does not exist in breezy).

[WW (wweckesser)]

P.S. Yes, this is a duplicate of the problem described by Bruce Sherwood in Bug #40951.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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