after further searching this is what I turned up.
http://lordamit.blogspot.com/2012/07/installing-opengl-in-linux-mint-ubuntu.html
Will
this do anything bad for the system or useless? What about the sample code
that he included?

Installing openGL in Linux Mint / Ubuntu for Graphics Lab
<http://lordamit.blogspot.com/2012/07/installing-opengl-in-linux-mint-ubuntu.html>
This is fairly simple actually.

All you have to do is to install the following things in your Linux distro.

sudo apt-get install freeglut3
sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev
sudo apt-get install binutils-gold

And you are done :)

Here is a sample code for you:

/*
 * File:   main.cpp
 * Author: lordamit
 *
 * Created on July 9, 2012, 12:53 PM
 */

#include <GL/glut.h>
using namespace std;

void draw(void) {

    //set Background color
    glClearColor(1, 0, 0, 1);
    glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
    //Draw color
    glFlush();

}

//Main program

int main(int argc, char **argv) {

    glutInit(&argc, argv);

    glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_SINGLE | GLUT_RGB);

    //set window position
    glutInitWindowPosition(50, 25);

    //set window size
    glutInitWindowSize(500, 250);

    //set window name
    glutCreateWindow("My window");

    //Call to the drawing function
    glutDisplayFunc(draw);

    glutMainLoop();
    return 0;
}


Save this file using name program.c and compile it using

gcc -lGL -lglut program.c -o program


And execute it using

./program


You are done!


:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

> nope... it didn't help any. I tried --fix-missing --fix-broken an -f .
> Then I reran install and same error.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Walter Mack <wmack@componentsw.com> wrote:
>
>>  maybe this will fix it:
>>
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get --fix-missing
>> then try sudo apt-get install again
>>
>>
>>
>> On 07/06/2014 06:57 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>
>> I had it working before but don't know how I did itthis is what the
>> readme file says (in part)
>> *Linux*
>> You'll need to make sure the appropriate OpenGL drivers are installed,
>> plus these libraries:
>> * *libSDL 1.2*
>> * *libSDL_image*
>> * *OpenAL*
>> (Note: To use the client provided with the Linux package, you will need
>> *OpenAL-Soft* instead of OpenAL, otherwise you will need to compile your
>> own client if you would rather use normal OpenAL).
>>
>>  I know what they want me to do but googling it is confusing. HOw do I
>> do this. this is what I was told to do and the result:
>>
>>  bmike1@Presario1:~$ sudo apt-get install xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-glu
>> mesa-utils libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri:i386
>> libgl1-mesa-dri
>> Reading package lists... Done
>>  Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> E: Unable to locate package xlibmesa-gl
>> E: Unable to locate package xlibmesa-glu
>> bmike1@Presario1:~$
>>
>>  :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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