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I want to setup openGL programming environment on ubuntu. What packages or tools I should install and what is the best way of getting into openGL as a newbie.

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What language would you prefer? – eXlin Nov 4 '10 at 17:31

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StackOverflow is a better place for programming related questions, check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/859501/learning-opengl-in-ubuntu

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As far as I know OpenGL is a graphic library, you only need an IDE depends on the language you want use OpenGL in it.

Anjuta Install anjuta is a perfect IDE for C and C++

then you have to download OpenGL library:

sudo apt-get install freeglut3 freeglut3-dev libglew1.5 libglew1.5-dev libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dev

after that you should include libraries (in folder gl/*) into your code

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+1. GLUT is what we learned on for graphics at uni. Fairly standard C bindings and there's lots of documentation. – Oli♦ Nov 4 '10 at 20:34

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