libEGL.so.1 is not a symbolic link

After the installation of any programs I get the following error

Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu7) ... /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib/nvidia-375/libEGL.so.1 is not a symbolic link /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/nvidia-375/libEGL.so.1 is not a symbolic link 

What is this error and how can I solve it?

4 Answers

This is an issue which has affected many users and is reported as a bug at Launchpad.

There appears to be a conflict between different versions of libEGL.

To get rid of these warning, create the following symlinks (but first read the warning bellow):

sudo mv /usr/lib/nvidia-375/libEGL.so.1 /usr/lib/nvidia-375/libEGL.so.1.org sudo mv /usr/lib32/nvidia-375/libEGL.so.1 /usr/lib32/nvidia-375/libEGL.so.1.org sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nvidia-375/libEGL.so.375.39 /usr/lib/nvidia-375/libEGL.so.1 sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/nvidia-375/libEGL.so.375.39 /usr/lib32/nvidia-375/libEGL.so.1 

Warning: There is no need to change your system. If after reboot you can not start the graphical interface you can solve by:
1. Login into a terminal;
2. Run sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia*

The following is an easy-to-use version of Noisy_Botnet's solution. It facilitates repeating the process for any update.

#! /bin/sh # # find the file in /usr/lib LIBEGL=`find /usr/lib/nvidia* -name libEGL.so.\* | egrep "[0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9]*$"` LIBEGL_LINK=`echo $LIBEGL | sed 's/[0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9]*$/1/'` printf "\n\nThe following commands will be executed:\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n" printf "mv $LIBEGL_LINK ${LIBEGL_LINK}.orig\nln -s $LIBEGL $LIBEGL_LINK\n\n" while true; do read -p "Do you wish to perform these commands? " yn case $yn in [Yy]* ) mv $LIBEGL_LINK ${LIBEGL_LINK}.orig; ln -s $LIBEGL $LIBEGL_LINK ; break;; [Nn]* ) break;; * ) echo "Please answer yes or no.";; esac done # find the file in /usr/lib32 LIBEGL=`find /usr/lib32/nvidia* -name libEGL.so.\* | egrep "[0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9]*$"` LIBEGL_LINK=`echo $LIBEGL | sed 's/[0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9]*$/1/'` printf "\n\nThe following commands will be executed:\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n" printf "mv $LIBEGL_LINK ${LIBEGL_LINK}.orig\nln -s $LIBEGL $LIBEGL_LINK\n\n" while true; do read -p "Do you wish to perform these commands? " yn case $yn in [Yy]* ) mv $LIBEGL_LINK ${LIBEGL_LINK}.orig; ln -s $LIBEGL $LIBEGL_LINK ; break;; [Nn]* ) break;; * ) echo "Please answer yes or no.";; esac done 

did you upgrade without update first? I had the same message, I updated, upgraded and the message was gone

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade 

I had the same issue and ended up getting through it; it had worked before. I have Cuda 8.0 and Tensorflow 1.3 on Ubuntu 16.04.

This is how I resolved the issue. First,

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade 

Then,

sudo ldconfig /usr/local/cuda/lib64 

It works now. The execution order matters.