Updating OpenGL from version 3.0 to latest 4.5

I am trying to update my OpenGL driver to the latest version. I have tried the following ppas:

ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
ppa:eek:ibaf/graphics-drivers
ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/updates

So far nothing works. Is there any solution for this?

Output of glxinfo | grep OpenGL

OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics 405 (Braswell)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 17.2.0-devel - padoka PPA
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 17.2.0-devel - padoka PPA
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 17.2.0-devel - padoka PPA
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

2 Answers

Old question but answering if anyone stumble upon this.

I had Ubuntu 16.04 with kernel 4.4. I had the problem of glxinfo showing incorrect version. Most of the time, OpenGL version was shown to be 3.3. I had to update my kernel to 4.15 and the problem got fixed. I ran the following command:

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-16.04

Restarted the system, now I have OpenGL 4.5:

server glx version string: 1.4
client glx version string: 1.4
GLX version: 1.4 Max core profile version: 4.5 Max compat profile version: 3.0 Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1 Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.1
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.0.5
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 18.0.5
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 18.0.5
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10

I own a laptop with Intel(R) HD Graphics 520 (Skylake GT2). I ran into same issue, wasn't able to solve with the given solution.So, I tried doing following things and it helped.

On running command:

glxinfo|grep OpenGL

You'll be getting core profile version string output, which will determine the max to which you can clamp your version of opengl. For me it was 4.5 so next I ran the following command :

export MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.5

You can write your required version within your available range. Post this you can check the updated version with this command:

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"

Once you can see that your version has been changed you can export it in your bashrc with the following command:

echo 'export MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.5' >> ~/.bashrc