Install CGAL in Ubuntu16&18

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To install cgal in the latest Ubuntu, many tutorials pointed out to compile openResource by yourself. I tried to install all directly using apt install or apt-get install, it worked in Ubuntu 16.04. For Ubuntu 18.04, i thought it is same as before but it failed strangely. I will go on to make it.

Dependency Libraries

sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev libgmp-dev libgmp3-dev libmpfr-dev geomview
sudo apt-get install freeglut3 freeglut3-dev
sudo apt-get install binutils-gold
sudo apt-get install libglew-dev
sudo apt-get install g++
sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev
sudo apt-get install cmake build-essential  
sudo apt-get install libeigen3-dev
sudo apt-get install libtbb-dev
sudo apt-get install libmetis-dev libmetis5 
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

Qt5

sudo apt-get install qt5-default qtscript5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libcgal-qt5-dev libcgal-ipelets  

***In ubuntu16***  
sudo apt-get install  libcgal11v5 libcgal-qt5-11 

***In ubuntu18***  
sudo apt-get install  libcgal13 libcgal-qt5-13 

LibQGLviewer

***In ubuntu16***  
sudo apt-get install libqglviewer-dev libqglviewer2  

***In ubuntu18***  
sudo apt-get install libqglviewer-dev-qt5 libqglviewer2-qt5

Install CGAL

sudo apt-get install libcgal-dev libcgal-demo
mkdir $HOME/cgal && cd $HOME/cgal	     
tar xzf /usr/share/doc/libcgal-demo/examples.tar.gz
tar xzf /usr/share/doc/libcgal-demo/demo.tar.gz