How To Install embree-tools on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install embree-tools
on Debian 11.
What is embree-tools
embree-tools is:
Intel(R) Embree is a collection of high-performance ray tracing kernels, developed at Intel. The target users of Intel(R) Embree are graphics application engineers who want to improve the performance of their photo-realistic rendering application by leveraging Embree’s performance-optimized ray tracing kernels. The kernels are optimized for the latest Intel(R) processors with support for SSE, AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512 instructions. Intel(R) Embree supports runtime code selection to choose the traversal and build algorithms that best matches the instruction set of your CPU.
This package provides the official command-line tools.
There are three methods to install embree-tools
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install embree-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install embree-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install embree-tools
Install embree-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install embree-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install embree-tools
Install embree-tools Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install embree-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install embree-tools
How To Uninstall embree-tools on Debian 11
To uninstall only the embree-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove embree-tools
Uninstall embree-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall embree-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove embree-tools
Remove embree-tools Configurations and Data
To remove embree-tools
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge embree-tools
Remove embree-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove embree-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge embree-tools
Dependencies
embree-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install embree-tools
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.