Getting libGLX.so.0 not found error with binary release of 5.6.1

ParaView Support
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Hi all,

Following the blog entry about the release of version 5.6.1 as of last night (local time), I downloaded the Linux binary release tarBall (https://www.paraview.org/paraview-downloads/download.php?submit=Download&version=v5.6&type=binary&os=Linux&downloadFile=ParaView-5.6.1-MPI-Linux-64bit.tar.gz) as I did before for recent versions, and updated my PATH in .bashrc (OpenSUSE leap 42.3, using NVIDIA graphics card).

When I try to launch paraview, I receive the following error:

/home/tom/ParaView/ParaView-5.6.1-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview: error while loading shared libraries: libGLX.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I can still launch 5.6.0 or any older versions that I still have on my computer, so I am wondering if there is something particular to do?

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I don’t have good ideas, but the poor ones I have is to remove your configuration files. These will be in ~/.config/ParaView. Next, try running a software renderer. Do it like this, obvoiusly in the paraview/bin directory:
./paraview --mesa-llvm

3

I forgot to mention. I downloaded this tarball for 5.6.1, and it ran fine for me. RHEL7.

4

you may need to install libglvnd package.

5

Thanks for all the suggestions. Unfortunately Walter’s suggestions did not solve the issue.
Regarding the libglvnd package, it is not available for my version of OpenSUSE is seems.
I do want to upgrade at some point to more recent versions, hopefully that would solve the issue. But if anyone has another suggestion, I am more than happy to try.

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What is the output of this command ?

zypper se --provides --match-exact libGLX.so.0
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Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
No matching items found.

8

I’m definitely no OpenSuse expert, but it looks like our release needs libGLX.so which is not provided on your distribution.

9

Yes, that is my conclusion as well. Some search results indicate that later versions have this option, so I will try and upgrade at some point (also other packages would require this).

Thanks a lot for the suggestions!