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 Needed for example for Debian wheezy or Ubuntu 12.04.5 which ships OSMesa 8.0.5.
-   wget -nc ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/current/MesaLib-10.2.2.tar.bz2
+   wget -nc ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/current/mesa-10.5.4.tar.xz
-   tar xjf MesaLib-10.2.2.tar.bz2
+   tar Jxf mesa-10.5.4.tar.xz
-   cd Mesa-10.2.2/
+   cd mesa-10.5.4/
    autoreconf -fi
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 == known problems ==
-* {{bug|44478}} Segfault with proprietary Nvidia drivers
+Unfortunately, there are several known problems with using on-screen Mesa and OSMesa at the same time.
-* {{bug|44979}} Clumsy/missing configure check
+The --without-OSMesa configure can be used to disable OSMesa if a problem is encountered.
-* {{bug|44338}} Doesn't work on Windows (MXE build)
+* {{bug|44478}} segmentation fault when using proprietary Nvidia drivers
+* {{bug|44979}} clumsy/missing configure check, relies on runtime failure
+* {{bug|44338}} doesn't work at all on Windows
+* [https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424059 LP #1424059] libosmesa6 is not installable on Ubuntu 14.04 with HWE updates
+* {{bug|50479}} doesn't work at all with libglvnd, now standard in most distributions
+=== workarounds ===
+* Preload the Mesa libGL.so, for example
+  export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so
+== Reporting Bugs ==
+* Please include the output of
+  glxinfo | grep "^OpenGL \(renderer\|core profile version\|vendor\)"