# Getting libGLX.so.0 not found error with binary release of 5.6.1
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/getting-libglx-so-0-not-found-error-with-binary-release-of-5-6-1/2133
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** opengl
**Created:** [June 27, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/getting-libglx-so-0-not-found-error-with-binary-release-of-5-6-1/2133 "2019-06-27T13:41:09Z")
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### Author:  [@tomF](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tomF)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/getting-libglx-so-0-not-found-error-with-binary-release-of-5-6-1/2133/1 "2019-06-27T13:41:09Z")
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](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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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/getting-libglx-so-0-not-found-error-with-binary-release-of-5-6-1/2133/2 "2019-06-27T19:15:41Z")
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
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/getting-libglx-so-0-not-found-error-with-binary-release-of-5-6-1/2133/3 "2019-06-27T19:31:16Z")
I forgot to mention. I downloaded this tarball for 5.6.1, and it ran fine for me. RHEL7.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/getting-libglx-so-0-not-found-error-with-binary-release-of-5-6-1/2133/4 "2019-06-28T13:25:40Z")
you may need to install libglvnd package.
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### Author:  [@tomF](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tomF)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/getting-libglx-so-0-not-found-error-with-binary-release-of-5-6-1/2133/5 "2019-06-28T14:26:54Z")
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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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/getting-libglx-so-0-not-found-error-with-binary-release-of-5-6-1/2133/6 "2019-06-28T14:42:25Z")
What is the output of this command ?
```auto
zypper se --provides --match-exact libGLX.so.0
```
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### Author:  [@tomF](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tomF)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/getting-libglx-so-0-not-found-error-with-binary-release-of-5-6-1/2133/7 "2019-06-28T14:44:41Z")
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/getting-libglx-so-0-not-found-error-with-binary-release-of-5-6-1/2133/8 "2019-06-28T14:47:28Z")
I’m definitely no OpenSuse expert, but it looks like our release needs libGLX.so which is not provided on your distribution.
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### Author:  [@tomF](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tomF)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/getting-libglx-so-0-not-found-error-with-binary-release-of-5-6-1/2133/9 "2019-06-28T14:49:15Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2025, 10:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/getting-libglx-so-0-not-found-error-with-binary-release-of-5-6-1/2133/10 "2025-11-10T10:04:36Z")
ParaView 6.0.20251110 (or the upcoming ParaView 6.1.0) does not require libGLX.so anymore for `pvserver`, `pvpython` and `pvbatch`.