Bug#905908: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory when updating to 4.4.1~rc2-3

[Andreas Beckmann]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 16:00:18 +0200 Kyle Robbertze <krobbertze at gmail.com>
wrote:
> When updating octave to 4.4.1~rc2-3, I received the following error:
> 
> Setting up octave (4.4.1~rc2-3) ...
> /usr/bin/octave-cli: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing package octave (--configure):
>  installed octave package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127

Do you still have the full transcript from that upgrade session?
Check /var/log/apt/term.log*
I'm primarily interested in the things that happened before the failure.

Why does it need libGL.so.1 in a maintainer script anyway?


Andreas