Installing Qt on linux, cannot find -lGL

Question

I\'m having a hard time trying to install Qt on linux. I downloaded the .run file on the website and installed Qt. However, when I try to compile the default Hello World pro

Answer 1

Those other posters are correct, but on some systems, the lib to install is named differently. I just dealt with a 32bit Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS system, and libgl-dev was not available.

Instead, I needed to install the libgl1-mesa-dev package via:

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev