diff --git a/script/app-mlperf-inference-mlcommons-python/meta.yaml b/script/app-mlperf-inference-mlcommons-python/meta.yaml
index 720d59514..fe7793e2d 100644
--- a/script/app-mlperf-inference-mlcommons-python/meta.yaml
+++ b/script/app-mlperf-inference-mlcommons-python/meta.yaml
@@ -1252,6 +1252,7 @@ variations:
     group: models
     deps:
       - tags: get,generic-python-lib,_opencv-python
+      - tags: get,generic-sys-util,_libgl
       - tags: get,generic-python-lib,_numpy
         names:
           - numpy
@@ -1270,6 +1271,7 @@ variations:
       MLC_MLPERF_USE_MLCOMMONS_RUN_SCRIPT: "yes"
     deps:
       - tags: get,generic-python-lib,_opencv-python
+      - tags: get,generic-sys-util,_libgl
       - tags: get,generic-python-lib,_numpy
         names:
           - numpy
diff --git a/script/get-generic-sys-util/customize.py b/script/get-generic-sys-util/customize.py
index 74b8c75b6..0efd666bf 100644
--- a/script/get-generic-sys-util/customize.py
+++ b/script/get-generic-sys-util/customize.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ def preprocess(i):
     state = i['state']
     automation = i['automation']
 
-    # Use VERSION_CMD and CHECK_CMD if no CHECK_CMD is set
+    # Use VERSION_CMD as CHECK_CMD if no CHECK_CMD is set
     if env.get('MLC_SYS_UTIL_VERSION_CMD', '') != '' and env.get(
             'MLC_SYS_UTIL_CHECK_CMD', '') == '':
         env['MLC_SYS_UTIL_CHECK_CMD'] = env['MLC_SYS_UTIL_VERSION_CMD']
diff --git a/script/get-generic-sys-util/meta.yaml b/script/get-generic-sys-util/meta.yaml
index 41ed35745..cc278c21f 100644
--- a/script/get-generic-sys-util/meta.yaml
+++ b/script/get-generic-sys-util/meta.yaml
@@ -110,6 +110,21 @@ variations:
         brew: ''
         dnf: ''   
         yum: ''
+  
+  libgl:
+    env:
+      MLC_SYS_UTIL_NAME: libgl # tbd: regular expression for version as well as whether its installed?
+      MLC_SYS_UTIL_CHECK_CMD: 'ldconfig -p | grep -i libgl.so.*' 
+    default_env:
+      MLC_GENERIC_SYS_UTIL_IGNORE_MISSING_PACKAGE: yes
+    new_env_keys:
+    - MLC_LIBGL_VERSION
+    state:
+      libgl: # tbd: complete for other flavours of linux
+        apt: libgl1
+        brew: ''
+        dnf: mesa-libGL   
+        yum: mesa-libGL
   libsm6:
     env:
       MLC_SYS_UTIL_NAME: libsm6 # tbd: regular expression for version as well as whether its installed?
diff --git a/script/get-preprocessed-dataset-imagenet/meta.yaml b/script/get-preprocessed-dataset-imagenet/meta.yaml
index eea817b2f..124f73572 100644
--- a/script/get-preprocessed-dataset-imagenet/meta.yaml
+++ b/script/get-preprocessed-dataset-imagenet/meta.yaml
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ deps:
     MLC_IMAGENET_PREPROCESSED_PATH:
     - 'on'
   tags: mlperf,mlcommons,inference,source,src
+- tags: get,generic-sys-util,_libgl
 docker:
   run: false
 env:
diff --git a/script/get-sys-utils-cm/run-ubuntu.sh b/script/get-sys-utils-cm/run-ubuntu.sh
index df0328c40..df10e4ef3 100644
--- a/script/get-sys-utils-cm/run-ubuntu.sh
+++ b/script/get-sys-utils-cm/run-ubuntu.sh
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ ${MLC_SUDO} ${MLC_APT_TOOL} update && \
            libgl1 \
            libjpeg9-dev \
            unzip \
-           libgl1 \
            zlib1g-dev
 
 # Install Python deps though preference is to install them