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

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!

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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.

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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:~$ 

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