Hi Dreaming_Johnny,
It might be that your system is using OpenGL 1.1 (which is actually quite ancient). And that might be because you don’t have any OpenGL drivers installed.
The error message is coming from within the Qt library that GPlates uses. It requires OpenGL 2.0 (which is also very old). This thread also has the same error message, and the system in question had only OpenGL 1.1.