Is freeglut3 needed

[Hugo-Leung]

First, thank you for creating this script.

While reading the documentation on tug.org, I notice they have Depends: freeglut3 in debian-equivs-2022-ex.txt, which is not present in debian-control-texlive-in.txt

Is this is deliberate choice? Thank you

[scottkosty]

Thanks for the report! It was not a deliberate choice. I'm not sure why they have freeglut3 listed. We would need to figure that out before we know whether it should also be listed in debian-control-texlive-in.txt. I have tested install-tl-ubuntu on a fresh installation of minimal Ubuntu, and it worked, which makes me think that there's no dependency missing. But I'm not at all confident about that.

[Hugo-Leung]

I did a bit of digging, it seems asymptote that is shipped in the standard repo depends on freeglut3

$apt info asymptote |grep freeglut3
Depends: tex-common (>= 6.13), python3:any, freeglut3 (>= 2.8.1), libboost-filesystem1.74.0 (>= 1.74.0), libboost-thread1.74.0 (>= 1.74.0), libc6 (>= 2.35), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.16.2), libfftw3-double3 (>= 3.3.5), libgc1 (>= 1:7.2d), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libgl1, libglew2.2 (>= 2.2.0-4), libglx0, libgsl27 (>= 2.7.1), libreadline8 (>= 6.0), libsigsegv2 (>= 2.9), libstdc++6 (>= 11), libtinfo6 (>= 6), libtirpc3 (>= 1.0.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3), ghostscript, imagemagick, texlive-binaries, texlive-latex-base, texlive-pstricks, texlive-plain-generic, xdg-utils

Therefore using the current install-tl-ubuntu, the following command would fail

$ which asy
/opt/texbin/asy
$ asy
asy: error while loading shared libraries: libglut.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Having said that the the texlive docker image from Island of TeX also removed freeglut3
https://gitlab.com/islandoftex/images/texlive/-/commit/ecaffc6540d1f45eccf5888cb212a91a29b03846

[scottkosty]

Good to know! Thanks for that info, especially for how to reproduce an error without the package. Let's leave this open. I'm not sure how to proceed on it and don't have time to look at it carefully.