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I just upgraded my TeX Live installation on Ubuntu 64-bit from 2012 to 2013. After the upgrade, when I tried to render some simple 3D drawings I was not getting the default rendering window to come up. So from the Asymptote manual I added the following lines:

import settings;
outformat="";
render=-1;

I get the following error:

$ asy -V 3test.asy
 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/asymptote/three.asy: 2906.13: runtime: to support onscreen rendering, please install glut library, run ./configure, and recompile

In TeX Live 2012, even without the suggested configuration options, a command such as the one used above would go right into the OpenGL renderer.

Any suggestions as to what is going on? I am thinking that perhaps the Asymptote that is compiled into TeX Live 2013 is compiled without the glut libraries? Do I need to compile Asymptote directly from source?

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Assumption

I guess that you installed "vanilla" TeX Live 2013 from CTAN as explained on the following question How to install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?

For a next time tell also what version of Ubuntu you installed - e.g. Ubuntu 12.04 Longtime-support.

Requirement of OpenGL/Glut

Check what packages you installed already. I had to install the package freeglut3-dev:

$ apt-get install freeglut3-dev
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