Bug#537932: boinc-client should maybe recommend libglut as some WUs will fail without it

[Alon Horn]

Package: boinc-client
Version: 6.4.5+dfsg-2
Severity: normal

hi,
i got this error on all spinhenge at home and leiden classical WU's:

<core_client_version>6.4.5</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
process exited with code 127 (0x7f, -129)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
metropolis_3.12_i686-pc-linux-gnu: error while loading shared libraries: libglut.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

</stderr_txt>
]]>


manually installing libglut3 fixed the problem.
problem did not show in CPDN & WCG WUs. did not test other projects.

regards,
alon

-- Package-specific info:
-- Contents of /etc/default/boinc-client:
# This file is /etc/default/boinc-client, it is a configuration file for the
# /etc/init.d/boinc-client init script.

# Set this to 1 to enable and to 0 to disable the init script.
ENABLED="1"

# Set this to 1 to enable advanced scheduling of the BOINC core client and
# all its sub-processes (reduces the impact of BOINC on the system's
# performance).
SCHEDULE="1"

# The BOINC core client will be started with the permissions of this user.
BOINC_USER="boinc"

# This is the data directory of the BOINC core client.
BOINC_DIR="/var/lib/boinc-client"

# This is the location of the BOINC core client, that the init script uses.
# If you do not want to use the client program provided by the boinc-client
# package, you can specify here an alternative client program.
#BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/local/bin/boinc"
BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/bin/boinc"

# Here you can specify additional options to pass to the BOINC core client.
# Type 'boinc --help' or 'man boinc' for a full summary of allowed options.
#BOINC_OPTS="--allow_remote_gui_rpc"
BOINC_OPTS=""

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages boinc-client depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  ca-certificates        20090709          Common CA certificates
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.27            Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                  2.9-21            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3               7.19.5-1          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8k-3          SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.0-11          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base               3.2-22            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  python                 2.5.4-2           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-14 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages boinc-client recommends:
ii  schedtool                     1.3.0-1    Queries/alters process' scheduling

Versions of packages boinc-client suggests:
pn  boinc-app-seti              <none>       (no description available)
ii  boinc-manager               6.4.5+dfsg-2 GUI to control and monitor the BOI

-- debconf information:
  boinc-client/remove_boinc_dir: false
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