180.22 Nvidia driver produces libgl.so.1 error on AMD64 systems

[Paul Weiss]

In Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 if you install the 180.22 Nvidia driver after a fresh Ubuntu install you will get a libgl.so.1 error during the driver install. The driver will complete the installation and you will be able to use compiz without problems. The funny thing is that if you install the 180.22 driver over top the 180.22 driver again, you will not get the libgl.so.1 error. The only problem that I did encounter is a problem with wine. All wine applications (including winecfg) have a 30 second delay before starting. And if you try to run an opengl application it will fail to start and give you the output that I have included in the attached file. To fix this problem you can install the 177.82 driver and then the 180.22 driver over top of it so as to not have any libgl.so.1 errors in wine.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Can you post the error that you got when you first installed the driver, please?

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

I had exactly the same problem and I fixed it in the same way, ie by reinstalling the 180.22 driver. wine was crashing with the libgl error. I reinstalled 180.22 using the same script (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.22-pkg2.run from the nvidia ftp site - I install it by dropping to a root console, doing killall gdm, and then executing the .run script) and this has fixed it.

This was on a fresh install of Intrepid updated to kernel 2.6.27-11 and wine 1.1.12.

Unfortunately I didn't write down the original error that the 180.22 nvidia installer told me right at the end. I think it said that libgl couldn't be verified but that this might not matter. When I reinstalled it, it said that my configuration had changed before it started installing, but it didn't report any error at the end.

[Paul Weiss (interweiss)]

I think the error stated that it can't verify libgl.so.1 - this was after the 32 bit libraries were installed.

[Paul Weiss (interweiss)]

And wow, someone actually took a screen shot of the error:

http://img19.picoodle.com/img/img19/3/1/12/f_Screenshot1m_e0d39b7.png

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Sorry but the NVIDIA installer is not officially supported by Ubuntu.