Fatal error: gl/glut.h: no such file or directory

Question

I'm attempting to write a program and I keep getting this error:

Fatal error: gl/glut.h: no such file or directory

I've read through other similar problems that people were having, and nothing has worked for me. What can I do to solve this problem?

Solution

On Ubuntu 13.10 this file is available in the freeglut3-dev package.

$ sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev

You must also be aware that C++ and Ubuntu are both case-sensitive. The correct include line in your program is:

#include <GL/glut.h>

The upper-case "GL" is important.

Comments

[weatherman]

I also encountered this problem on Kubutnu 20.04, I tried mentioned: sudo apt-get install libglfw3-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev this didnt work. freeglut3-dev helped at least.