[CPLUG] Wondering if anyone could explain some Linux stuff to me

[Ricky Wong]

Which distro are you using? It might be telling you to install the *package*
that includes the `g++` command, which in Ubuntu is `build-essential` (I
think), which would imply `sudo aptitude install build-essential`

As for glut libraries, in Ubuntu I would `aptitude search glut`, take a look
around, and install `libglut3-dev` and maybe even `libglut3` (Just guessing
here)

Ricky

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Aaron Burke <aaburke at calpoly.edu> wrote:

> I'm trying to compile and run some .cpp files that use glut calls on my
> laptop, but it doesn't recognize g++ so it tells me try installing the
> package g++, which it fails to find when I do that. I don't know if its
> trying to get this off the net, and currently I don't know how to connect to
> a wireless network. Even if I get all that working I don't know if I have to
> let Linux know how to find the glut libraries and how I would do that (I
> think I have to set my environment variables but I'd prefer to have someone
> who knows what they're doing to run me through all these steps before I do
> things on my own) So if anyone has the time to quickly sit down with me
> sometime and show me how to do all of this I would really appreciate it.
>
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