# Trouble installing VTK on ubuntu
**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/trouble-installing-vtk-on-ubuntu/5148
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 6, 2021, 1:25am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/trouble-installing-vtk-on-ubuntu/5148 "2021-02-06T01:25:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@kland](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/kland)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2021, 1:25am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/trouble-installing-vtk-on-ubuntu/5148/1 "2021-02-06T01:25:34Z")
Hello, when I try to run “make install” for VTK I get the following error:
[53%] Built target ImagingMath
make[2]: \*\*\* No rule to make target ‘/usr/lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libGLX.so’, needed by ‘lib/libvtkglew-9.0.so.9.0.0’. Stop.
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:7758: recipe for target ‘ThirdParty/glew/vtkglew/CMakeFiles/glew.dir/all’ failed
make[1]: \*\*\* [ThirdParty/glew/vtkglew/CMakeFiles/glew.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:140: recipe for target ‘all’ failed
make: \*\*\* [all] Error 2
Obviously the first thing I thought was that /usr/lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libGLX.so cannot be found, however when I run “locate libGLX.so” it returns
/usr/lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libGLX.so
/usr/lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libGLX.so.0
(i.e., exactly where it should be). Does anyone have any ideas?
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### Author:  [@Paulo\_Carvalho](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Paulo_Carvalho)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/trouble-installing-vtk-on-ubuntu/5148/2 "2021-02-21T13:43:52Z")
Hello, kland,
The result of `locate` shows only that you have the runtime libraries in your system to run OpenGL programs. To develop or compile software that use OpenGL, you need to install de so-called devel packages, which install the headers (`.h` files), link-time libraires (`.a` files), CMake `find-.cmake` files, etc. This rationale applies to other dependencies of VTK (e.g. Qt if you enable Qt modules).
You can try this prior to configuring and building VTK:
`sudo apt-get install freeglut3 freeglut3-dev libglew1.5 libglew1.5-dev libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dev` (from: [https://askubuntu.com/questions/11378/how-do-i-set-up-an-opengl-programming-environment](https://askubuntu.com/questions/11378/how-do-i-set-up-an-opengl-programming-environment)).
cheers,
Paulo