Tut1: Installing, building, configuring, and testing OpenGL, FreeGlut, GLEW on Linux
In this tutorial I walk you through the installation of the right Nvidia drivers for your system. We then proceed to download, install, and build, and configure the FreeGlut, and GLEW libraries. We then write a snippet of code to test to make sure our configuration of OpenGL and its helper libraries are working correctly.