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

[Dana Goyette]

I believe it should be freeglut3-dev, actually.


On 03/05/2010 12:35 PM, Ricky Wong wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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