I use slackware64-current and after last update of glew-1.9 to glew-1.10 xbmc failed to start because is linking to libGLEW.so.1.9. To resolve it add a symlink : ln -s /usr/lib64/libGLEW.so.1.10 /usr/lib64/libGLEW.so.1.9 Panagiotis