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Update README with references to package names, address one error
Hi there!
Thanks for providing this software! I enjoyed it many years ago; it might have been featured on Hacker News.
Recently a penpal referred to a picture that I had generated with this software, and it reminded me to revisit it.
It still works great; I needed to install a package and fix a permission problem.
In case anyone still stumbles upon this software, I thought these steps were easy for me but might not be easy for everyone.
When running on Ubuntu today, an error like
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 151 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 24 (X_GLXCreateNewContext)
Value in failed request: 0x0
Serial number of failed request: 35
Current serial number in output stream: 36
name of display: :99
would occur.
This can be fixed by adding the current user to a system group called video.