Android Emulator Failed to load libGL.so

Android Emulator on my system failed to find libGL.so which was clearly available in both /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 provided by mesa-libGL.i686 and mesa-libGL.x86_64 respectively. Here is the exact problem I had.

$emulator -avd nexus5 -qemu -m 512 --enable-kvm
$Failed to load libGL.so
$error libGL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$Failed to load libGL.so
$error libGL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After searching Google extensively, I failed to find something that worked for me. The two prominent answers that came back were as follows.

• Link libGL.so.1 from /usr/lib to the tools‘ lib folder.

  ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 ~/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools/lib/libGL.so

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• Another person suggested to install mesa-libGL.i686 which I already had installed.

  yum install mesa-libGL.i686

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Since they both failed. I tried to install various packages related to libGL and I found mesa-libGL-devel.x86_64.

So to solve Failed to load libGL.so you need to run following command.

yum install mesa-libGL-devel.x86_64