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hey everybody,
i am using KDE 3.2 on Fedora Core 1 and cannot start KDE anymore. on starup, i get an error message saying that there was an error while loading shared libraries libGL.so.1 . After getting this error message, i am forced to launch my linux with another desktop manager (i use gnome as an alternative). Can anybody help me to get my KDE working again? i've looked all over the internet and obviously i'm the only one having this problem...
What should i do? uninstall and reinstall KDE??
any help would be useful, thank you very much
shorty

first of all, i want to thank you for taking the time to reply, however, your request doesn't appear to be working. i may have done something wrong i don't know. i opened a terminal and typed the following command lines:

[root@localhost root]# cd /lib
[root@localhost lib]# ln -s libGL.so libGL.so.1

then i tried starting kde again and got the same error messages that i had before:
kdplash: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory
kdeinit: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory
startkde: could not start kdeinit. check your installation.

any suggestions are welcomed
thanks
shorty1986[/quote]

i think i found the problem. i did a search for the three files: libGL.so, libGL.so.1, libGL.so.2

i found the two first files:
/usr/lib/libGL.so
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1
as for the third one, it is located in the following directory:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2.

and the thing is, for the libGL.so.1 file, in the 'type' section, it says that this file is a link, but it also says that this link is broken. should i therefore create a link to the libGL.so file?? or to the libGL.so.1.2 file??
thank you