Thanks for the offer Ziad, but I\'ve just been able to get it working.
The problem was with the opengl libraries (specifically libglu1) and my ATI graphics card.
I have installed various gl development libraries and now the precompiled binaries are working.
My attempts to compile SUMA on my Ubuntu platform never succeeded as I have been unable to get any dev libraries that give me the glwdrawa.h file. It looks like this may be legacy on Ubuntu but still required to compile SUMA?
Anyway, thanks for the support.