[Paraview] installation problem on ubuntu 10.04

[Michael Wild]

On Thu 08 Sep 2011 02:17:20 PM CEST, Alessandro Comunian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install ParaView from the sources, but the make process
> stops with the following message:
>
> ===================================================================
>
> [  8%] Building CXX object
> VTK/Utilities/Cosmo/CMakeFiles/Cosmo.dir/SODHalo.cxx.o
> Linking CXX shared library ../../../bin/libCosmo.so
> [  8%] Built target Cosmo
> [  8%] Building CXX object
> VTK/Utilities/ftgl/CMakeFiles/vtkftgl.dir/src/FTBitmapGlyph.cpp.o
> [ ... ]
> [  8%] Building CXX object
> VTK/Utilities/ftgl/CMakeFiles/vtkftgl.dir/src/FTSize.cpp.o
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/libGL.so', needed by
> `bin/libvtkftgl.so.pv3.10'.  Stop.
> make[1]: *** [VTK/Utilities/ftgl/CMakeFiles/vtkftgl.dir/all] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> ===================================================================
>
> Do you have some suggestion about how to investigate and solve the
> problem please?
> Thank you in advance,
> Bests,
>
> Alessandro


Install the libgl1-mesa-dev package, it contains /usr/lib/libGL.so. 
Finding out things like this is very easy with apt-file:

sudo apt-get install apt-file
sudo apt-file update
apt-file search /usr/lib/libGL.so

Michael