(Solved) Installing MESA packages from backports - did not find extension DRI_Mesa version 1

DTEAM

Hi, I played with Debian Backports on my Pi5 (big stupid mistake exepted for CMake) and now I have an issue with Mesa. I have read a thread about this issue, but i don't have the permission to delete some files in the usr/lib/ folder.

I already deleted the Mesa packages with sudo apt remove <package>. Any idea to fix this iisue? I'm a little bit in trouble.

NEW EDIT: Here's the list, only Mesa stuff, cmake, pipewire and gir1.2 was intall . I'm not able to go back to 23.2.1 . What is the best way to do that?

DTEAM

Here's the error message

DTEAM

Solved

I used this line to see the versions of the packages and know which one I want to change to

dpkg-query -W | grep '~bpo'

after, I purged all I wanted

sudo apt --purge remove libgl1-mesa-dev
sudo apt --purge remove libsdl2-dev 
sudo apt --purge remove libgl1-mesa-dri

and more  .....

If you use sudo apt remove libgl1-mesa-dev instead of purge, it's not enough. That was my mistake.

After I loaded Retropie-Setup

sudo sh ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

and I re-installed all dependency packages

For someone with basic computer skills like me , I had a close call!! 🤣

For CMake, what I did works well, but I don't recommand to play with that without a backup!

DTEAM

You can use backport for MESA (24.2.8)/Vulkan 1.2.289

Now I did it properly and test it. I saw a massive performance increase for game loading and a better performance with Vulkan. Unfortunately , Vulkan 1.3 is not officially available yet for Pi, only 1.2.289 is available .You can get it only with MESA 24.3 but it should be soon.

Here's what I did :

1- Create an empty file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-12-backports.list and write this inside with a file editor

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main

You must change the folder restriction first
2 - update MESA

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports mesa-va-drivers

3- Double check your installed packages with:

dpkg-query -W | grep '~bpo'

4 - Update Vulkan if needed

 sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers/bookworm-backports

Note : - Do a backup first
- I also recommend to update cmake sudo apt install cmake/bookworm-backports.