Bug#789167: nvidia-legacy-304xx-alternative: alternative for libEGL is missing

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2015-06-24 17:19, Ronny Standtke wrote:
> Whenever I switch the nvidia alternatives on my system to
> "/usr/lib/nvidia/legacy-304xx" libEGL is no longer available and breaks
> programs like kwin, cheese, totem, ...
> Here is the console output:
> 
> $ sudo update-alternatives --set nvidia /usr/lib/nvidia/legacy-304xx
> $ ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Jun 24 13:54
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.1 ->
> /etc/alternatives/glx--libEGL.so.1-x86_64-linux-gnu
> $ ls -l
> /etc/alternatives/glx--libEGL.so.1-x86_64-linux-gnu                                                                                    
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Jun 24 13:54
> /etc/alternatives/glx--libEGL.so.1-x86_64-linux-gnu ->
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nvidia/libEGL.so.1
> $ ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nvidia/libEGL.so.1
> ls: cannot access /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nvidia/libEGL.so.1: No such
> file or directory
> $ ldd /usr/bin/kwin | grep EGL
>         libEGL.so.1 => not found
>         libEGL.so.1 => not found

After setting the nvidia alternative, you must also update the glx
alternative, easiest would be to follow with
  dpkg-reconfigure glx-alternative-nvidia


Andreas