# Using Makie on Ubuntu 18.04

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [January 11, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-makie-on-ubuntu-18-04/53164 "2021-01-11T15:42:16Z")\
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I’m running with 1.5.1 and am not having much luck following the “quick start” instructions in the README for Makie.jl (“add Makie; test Makie”). I started off with a clean environment and added Makie.jl to it. After the first round of warnings and errors, I also added MakieGallery and GLMakie. At that point I was at least able to sort of run the Makie unit tests. All of them failed. Here’s the tale of woe from the first unit test:

> ┌ Warning: Loaded OpenGL Backend, but OpenGL isn’t working  
> └ @ GLMakie ~/.julia/packages/GLMakie/4EXKe/src/GLMakie.jl:73  
> ┌ Warning: Loaded OpenGL Backend, but OpenGL isn’t working  
> └ @ GLMakie ~/.julia/packages/GLMakie/4EXKe/src/GLMakie.jl:73  
> [ Info: It is normal for the Makie window to not appear during tests  
> [ Info: starting from index 1  
> Running tutorial\_simple\_scatter  
> ┌ Warning: Error thrown when evaluating Tutorial simple scatter  
> │ exception =  
> │ MethodError: no method matching backend\_show(::Missing, ::IOContext{IOStream}, ::MIME{Symbol(“image/png”)}, ::Scene)  
> │ Closest candidates are:  
> │ backend\_show(::Any, ::IO, ::MIME{Symbol(“text/plain”)}, ::Scene) at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/AbstractPlotting/rWfRe/src/display.jl:118  
> │ show(::IOContext{IOStream}, ::MIME{Symbol(“image/png”)}, ::Scene) at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/AbstractPlotting/rWfRe/src/display.jl:94  
> │ (::AbstractPlotting.var"#839#840"{Scene,DataType,Base.Iterators.Pairs{Symbol,Real,Tuple{Symbol,Symbol,Symbol},NamedTuple{(:full\_fidelity, :pt\_per\_unit, :px\_per\_unit),Tuple{Bool,Float64,Float64}}}})(::IOStream) at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/AbstractPlotting/rWfRe/src/display.jl:276  
> │ open(::AbstractPlotting.var"#839#840"{Scene,DataType,Base.Iterators.Pairs{Symbol,Real,Tuple{Symbol,Symbol,Symbol},NamedTuple{(:full\_fidelity, :pt\_per\_unit, :px\_per\_unit),Tuple{Bool,Float64,Float64}}}}, ::String, ::Vararg{String,N} where N; kwargs::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Union{},Union{},Tuple{},NamedTuple{(),Tuple{}}}) at ./io.jl:325  
> │ open(::Function, ::String, ::String) at ./io.jl:323  
> │ save(::FileIO.File{FileIO.DataFormat{:PNG}}, ::Scene; resolution::Tuple{Int64,Int64}, pt\_per\_unit::Float64, px\_per\_unit::Float64) at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/AbstractPlotting/rWfRe/src/display.jl:275  
> │ save at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/AbstractPlotting/rWfRe/src/display.jl:260 [inlined]  
> │ save\_media at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/MakieGallery/V0mvg/src/io.jl:19 [inlined]  
> │ macro expansion at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/MakieGallery/V0mvg/src/io.jl:297 [inlined]  
> │ macro expansion at /buildworker/worker/package\_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.5/Test/src/Test.jl:1115 [inlined]  
> │ (::MakieGallery.var"#135#138"{Tuple{Int64,Int64},Bool,String,Array{Any,1}})(::MakieGallery.CellEntry, ::Scene) at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/MakieGallery/V0mvg/src/io.jl:293  
> │ (::MakieGallery.var"#95#96"{Bool,Base.Iterators.Pairs{Symbol,MakieGallery.var"#output\_path#137"{String},Tuple{Symbol},NamedTuple{(:outputfile,),Tuple{MakieGallery.var"#output\_path#137"{String}}}},MakieGallery.var"#135#138"{Tuple{Int64,Int64},Bool,String,Array{Any,1}}})(::MakieGallery.CellEntry) at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/MakieGallery/V0mvg/src/database.jl:614  
> │ enumerate\_examples(::MakieGallery.var"#95#96"{Bool,Base.Iterators.Pairs{Symbol,MakieGallery.var"#output\_path#137"{String},Tuple{Symbol},NamedTuple{(:outputfile,),Tuple{MakieGallery.var"#output\_path#137"{String}}}},MakieGallery.var"#135#138"{Tuple{Int64,Int64},Bool,String,Array{Any,1}}}; start::Int64, exclude\_tags::Nothing) at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/MakieGallery/V0mvg/src/database.jl:539  
> │ #eval\_examples#94 at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/MakieGallery/V0mvg/src/database.jl:611 [inlined]  
> │ macro expansion at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/MakieGallery/V0mvg/src/io.jl:290 [inlined]  
> │ macro expansion at /buildworker/worker/package\_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.5/Test/src/Test.jl:1115 [inlined]  
> │ record\_examples(::String; resolution::Tuple{Int64,Int64}, resume::Bool, generate\_thumbnail::Bool, display::Bool, display\_output\_toplevel::Bool) at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/MakieGallery/V0mvg/src/io.jl:290  
> │ record\_examples(::String) at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/MakieGallery/V0mvg/src/io.jl:273  
> │ top-level scope at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/Makie/JLzLy/test/runtests.jl:14  
> │ include(::String) at ./client.jl:457  
> │ top-level scope at none:6  
> │ eval(::Module, ::Any) at ./boot.jl:331  
> │ exec\_options(::Base.JLOptions) at ./client.jl:272  
> │ \_start() at ./client.jl:506  
> └ @ MakieGallery ~/.julia/packages/MakieGallery/V0mvg/src/io.jl:308  
> Tutorial simple scatter: Test Failed at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/MakieGallery/V0mvg/src/io.jl:309  
> Expression: false  
> Stacktrace:  
> [1] macro expansion at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/MakieGallery/V0mvg/src/io.jl:309 [inlined]  
> [2] macro expansion at /buildworker/worker/package\_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.5/Test/src/Test.jl:1115 [inlined]  
> [3] (::MakieGallery.var"#135#138"{Tuple{Int64,Int64},Bool,String,Array{Any,1}})(::MakieGallery.CellEntry, ::Scene) at /home/jov9025/.julia/packages/MakieGallery/V0mvg/src/io.jl:293

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> Warning: Loaded OpenGL Backend, but OpenGL isn’t working

This one is important…  
Try:

```julia
using GLFW; GLFW.Window()

```

To see what’s happening - there are a few issues in GLFW.jl you may want to look at depending on the error.  
Makie went through a few iterations of moving around the test infrastructure - and docs for testing didn’t get updated yet.  
What you need to run to test GLMakie is:

```julia
rm Makie MakieGallery; add GLMakie; test GLMakie

```

MakieGallery is deprecated (it formed a nasty circular dependency with AbstractPlotting), and by now, it’s preferred to simply use the backend instead of Makie (they exports everything Makie exports).

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**Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-makie-on-ubuntu-18-04/53164/3 "2021-01-11T17:25:15Z")

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Thank you! I’ll try out your suggestions.

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-makie-on-ubuntu-18-04/53164/4 "2021-01-17T17:02:26Z")

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I have same the same error.

```julia
Warning: Loaded OpenGL Backend, but OpenGL isn’t working

```

Followed all the above including removing old `AbstractPlotting` and `Makie` folders not in the Manifest or Project.toml files and checking they were not found by doing `rm Makie` and `rm AbstractPlotting` first. Running `test GLMakie` returned pages of errors culminating in:

```julia
ERROR: LoadError: Some tests did not pass: 0 passed, 201 failed, 0 errored, 0 broken.
in expression starting at /home/rogerp/.julia/packages/GLMakie/4MhfU/test/runtests.jl:12
ERROR: Package GLMakie errored during testing

```

However, I think my problem is the fact that I am using Radeon X580 graphics. But Gtk is fine as is everything else outside of Julia.

```julia
Error: Pkg.Resolve.ResolverError("Unsatisfiable requirements detected for package MakieGallery [dbd62bd0]:\n MakieGallery [dbd62bd0] log:\n ├─possible versions are: [0.0.1-0.0.9, 0.1.0-0.1.11, 0.2.0-0.2.17] or uninstalled\n ├─restricted to versions 0.2.1-0.2 by an explicit requirement, leaving only versions 0.2.1-0.2.17\n ├─restricted by compatibility requirements with AbstractPlotting [537997a7] to versions: 0.2.0-0.2.6 or uninstalled, leaving only versions: 0.2.1-0.2.6\n │ └─AbstractPlotting [537997a7] log:\n │ ├─possible versions are: [0.9.0-0.9.27, 0.10.0-0.10.11, 0.11.0-0.11.2, 0.12.0-0.12.18, 0.13.0-0.13.11, 0.14.0-0.14.4, 0.15.0-0.15.8] or uninstalled\n │ └─restricted to versions 0.10.6 by an explicit requirement, leaving only versions 0.10.6\n └─restricted by compatibility requirements with FixedPointNumbers [53c48c17] to versions: [0.0.8-0.0.9, 0.1.0-0.1.7] or uninstalled — no versions left\n └─FixedPointNumbers [53c48c17] log:\n ├─possible versions are: [0.5.0-0.5.3, 0.6.0-0.6.1, 0.7.0-0.7.1, 0.8.0-0.8.4] or uninstalled\n └─restricted to versions 0.6.1 by an explicit requirement, leaving only versions 0.6.1", nothing)

```

```julia
julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.5.3
Commit 788b2c77c1 (2020-11-09 13:37 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 980 @ 3.33GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-9.0.1 (ORCJIT, westmere)
Environment:
  JULIA_EDITOR = code

```

I also get the old: `ERROR: UndefVarError: Figure not defined` but I have had that for ever. If this constitutes going off topic please accept my apologies.