xmame and xmame.x don't work, they need libGL.so and libGLU.so

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I used KPackageKit to install xmame-x (and its dependency xmame-common) on my Kubuntu 9.10 amd64, but it doesn't work. Running `xmame` and `xmame.x11` both fail with
  GLERROR: cannot access OpenGL library libGL.so.

I have a variety of libGL libraries, just not one named libGL.so.
 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2
 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3.070600
 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1.3.070600

Googling suggests this is a common problem. In ubuntuforums the old thread "xmame can't find libGL.so, but it's there" suggests "You need to link /usr/lib/libGL.so to /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.6111". Instead I symlinked it to libGL.so.1.2.

Then I got "GLERROR: cannot access GLU library libGLU.so", so similarly I symlinked this to libGLU.so.1.3.070600

Then xmame worked! So as a n00b I wish some installer (mame or mesa or something else?) set up these needed libraries for me.

xmame-x version 0.106-3.1ubuntu2
xmame-common version 0.106-3.1ubuntu2

I already had libgl1-mesa-dri, libgl1-mesa-glx, and libglu1-mesa installed.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 10 16:45:50 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: xmame-x 0.106-3.1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.57-generic
SourcePackage: xmame
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1832): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.