I’m trying to run a Python PyQt6 application so that I can develop it. So I’m trying to get this to work in a development environment. When trying to run the application with python main.py I get the error following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/user/Project/main.py", line 3, in <module>
from PyQt6.QtWidgets import *
ImportError: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Presumably the interpreter can not find the OpenGL library object. After running ls /run/current-system/sw/lib/ -lat | grep libgl, it returns nothing. There doesn’t seem to by any OpenGL libraries installed on the system. Maybe they got installed somewhere else?
So far, what I’ve tried is adding the python311Packages.pyopengl package to my nix configuration. I’m using home manager so I put this in my home.nix file right after my python entry. I’ve included a snippet of my home.nix configuration for completeness.
home.nix file
{
home.packages = with pkgs; [
# Add packages to just this user
zoxide
fzf
lsd
gcc
xclip
python313Full
poetry
python311Packages.pyopengl
];
}
Not sure if it’s relevant, but I’m using the i3 desktop environment which I think is why I’m having the issue of no OpenGL libraries.
I then tried using the nix-ld program found here. When using nix-ld I tried adding the python311Packages.pyopengl package as before with home managers as well as libGL; neither of these seemed to include a new libgl object anywhere. I also check the /lib and /lib64 files for a new object.
My question here is how can I install the OpenGL shared object for the system? I would prefer to do it in my user configuration if possible (I also have a users.nix file to include programs in) because of the way I’ve structured my users’ configurations.