[vtkusers] Help with installation

[David Doria]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Vikram Mehta <vvmehta at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> I went through the instructions step by step to build the Cone example
> (Tutorial directory - Step 1) but this is the error I received :
>
> [100%] Built target Cone2
> [vm308 at dyn109-239 bin]$ ./Cone2
> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
>

It sounds like you don't have openGL installed. You probably need to do

sudo yum install opengl* gl* libgl*

or something like that.

I'm actually surprised that VTK built properly without opengl installed -
can anyone comment on that?

David
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