Working with computer graphics on your own computer If you are working on your own non-linux computer, there are several programs that can help you run our programs that contain graphics. Please checkout the links below. For Mac XQuartz project for OpenGL 1. reinstall Xquartz 2. defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 enable_iglx -bool true 3. Restart XQuartz program ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For Windows, either of these: Xming X Server for Windows VcXsrv Windows X Server Install OpenGL and all dependencies in Linux Do this in a terminal... sudo apt-get update OpenGL: sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev mesa-common-dev OpenAL: sudo apt-get install libopenal1 libopenal-dev ALUT: sudo apt-get install libalut0 libalut-dev The source for this information... stackoverflow