<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Dear Sir, After installing the freeglut software I got an error. Please give me some directions to solve this problem. freeglut (./globe_cloud2): Unable to create direct context rendering for window './globe_cloud2' Thanking you Sincerely D.Srinivas Desamsetti Srinivas Research Scholar Department of Meteorology and Oceanography Andhra University Visakhapatnam - 530 003 91 9491686740 (M) sreeds82@yahoo.com sreeds82@rediffmail.com --- On Fri, 7/3/09, Nils Kassube <kassube@gmx.net> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Nils Kassube <kassube@gmx.net> Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] OpenGL installation in Ubuntu Linux PC To: xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 2:17 PM <div class="plainMail">Srinivas Desamsetti wrote: > What I need to install is > > (1) freeglut > (2) freeglut-devel > (3) mesa* > > These 3 packages for running my application which is of OpenGL based. Open the synaptic package manager and click the "search" button. Search for freeglut and you will find the packages freeglut3 and freeglut3-dev. Right-click on those lines and mark them for installation. Then search for mesa and mark the packages you need for installation. I don't know exactly which packages you need but on my machine (9.04) I have these packages installed: libgl1-mesa-dev, libgl1-mesa-dev, libgl1-mesa-glx, libglu1-mesa, libglu1-mesa-dev, mesa-common-dev, mesa-utils. If you install more packages than needed it is usually not critical unless you have limitations on your download time or disk space. After marking the packages for installation, click the "apply" button and synaptic will download and install the selected packages. Nils -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" href="/mc/compose?to=xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>