Updating OpenGL on Ubuntu

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When trying to run Portal 2, I recive this error:

SDL video target is 'x11'
SDL video target is 'x11'

SDL failed to create GL compatibility profile (whichProfile=0!
SDL failed to create GL compatibility profile (whichProfile=0!

PROBLEM: You appear to have OpenGL 1.4.0, but we need at least 2.0.0!
Could not find required OpenGL entry point 'glGetError'! Either your video card is unsupported, or your OpenGL driver needs to be updated.
Could not find required OpenGL entry point 'glGetError'! Either your video card is unsupported, or your OpenGL driver needs to be updated.

How do I update OpenGL so I can run Portal 2?

Gman Smith

Posted 2015-03-01T21:21:13.770

Reputation: 1 681

Answers

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They seem to discuss the issue in this GitHub post as well as this one. This issue seems to not be an OpenGL upgrade problem but rather, a problem with libstdc++.so.6 located in SteamApps/common/Portal 2/bin/libstdc++.so.6. The solution posted by “xandark” seems to be the best suited solution to the issue:

  1. Delete SteamApps/common/Portal 2/bin/libstdc++.so.6
  2. Run the Steam client
  3. cd "SteamApps/common/Portal 2"
  4. LD_LIBRARY_PATH=bin ./portal2_linux -game portal2 -windowed

I thing that just doing step 1 and then running the Steam client will solve the issue. But please be sure to read those threads to get more info.

JakeGould

Posted 2015-03-01T21:21:13.770

Reputation: 38 217

It's still giving the same error – Gman Smith – 2015-03-01T22:32:59.603

@GmanSmith I’ve helped the best I could. Can’t help any further. Please read those pages and do some searches for libstdc++.so.6 and see if anything helps. Best of luck! – JakeGould – 2015-03-01T22:34:21.377

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