[vtkusers] Need help installing VTK on Linux

[David Doria]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Gestuality us <600gestures at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using Linux and I am having a tough time installing VTK on my
> computer.
> I downloaded the tar file and after untar, i gave a %ccmake VTK5.10.1/ and
> then i gave "c" to configure. I got the following error:
>
> " CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they
> are set to NOTFOUND.
>  Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the
> CMake files:
>  OPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR (ADVANCED)"
>
> and new commands are not available to me (like generate).
> I am a first time VTK user and need some hand-holding.
> Some help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Gestuality Team
>

It sounds like you don't have OpenGL development packages installed on your
system. Try installing the mesa-common-dev (for Ubuntu, or the equivalent
for other distributions).

David
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