NotImplementedError: Platform does not define a GLUT font retrieval function

[fyviezhao]

I'm running a TailorNet project that uses pypoengl on a remote linux machine. It raises an error below:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run_tailornet.py", line 6, in <module>
    from psbody.mesh import Mesh
  File "/data/miniconda3/envs/pytorch/lib/python3.8/site-packages/psbody/mesh/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
    from .meshviewer import MeshViewer, MeshViewers
  File "/data/miniconda3/envs/pytorch/lib/python3.8/site-packages/psbody/mesh/meshviewer.py", line 49, in <module>
    from OpenGL import GL, GLU, GLUT
  File "/data/miniconda3/envs/pytorch/lib/python3.8/site-packages/OpenGL/GLUT/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    from OpenGL.GLUT.fonts import *
  File "/data/miniconda3/envs/pytorch/lib/python3.8/site-packages/OpenGL/GLUT/fonts.py", line 20, in <module>
    p = platform.getGLUTFontPointer( name )
  File "/data/miniconda3/envs/pytorch/lib/python3.8/site-packages/OpenGL/platform/baseplatform.py", line 344, in getGLUTFontPointer
    raise NotImplementedError(
NotImplementedError: Platform does not define a GLUT font retrieval function

Can someone help me with this error? Thanks!

[fyviezhao]

This can be fixed by sudo apt-get install libosmesa6 plus export PYOPENGL_PLATFORM=osmesa. Closed.

[AndresCasado]

This is happening to me but I'm using an Arch based distro (Manjaro) and cannot install libosmesa6. I have both mesa and lib32-mesa to provide libOSMesa.so.

export PYOPENGL_PLATFORM=osmesa doesn't seem to work.

I tried creating a symbolic link named libOSMesa.so.6 to check if PyOpenGL was only using version 6 but that didn't work either.

What else can I try to fix this?

[AndresCasado]

@mcfletch sorry for the direct mention, should I open a new issue for this? Can this issue be reopened?