How To Install inventor-demo on Debian 10

Learn how to install inventor-demo on Debian 10 with this tutorial. inventor-demo is Open Inventor demonstration programs and example code

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install inventor-demo on Debian 10.

What is inventor-demo

inventor-demo is:

This package includes several Open Inventor demos: a scene viewer (SceneViewer), a scene graph viewer and editor (gview), a maze game (maze), an extrusion editor (noodle), a 3D morphing tool (qmorf), a surface of revolution editor (revo), among others.

This package also contains example code, including the examples from the books “The Inventor Mentor”, and “The Inventor Toolmaker”.

Open Inventor is an object-oriented 3D toolkit offering a comprehensive solution to interactive graphics programming problems. It presents a programming model based on a 3D scene database that simplifies graphics programming. It includes a large set of objects such as cubes, polygons, text, materials, cameras, lights, trackballs, handle boxes, 3D viewers, and editors can speed up your programming and extend your 3D program’s capabilities.

There are three methods to install inventor-demo on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install inventor-demo Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install inventor-demo using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install inventor-demo

Install inventor-demo Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install inventor-demo using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install inventor-demo

Install inventor-demo 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 inventor-demo using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install inventor-demo

How To Uninstall inventor-demo on Debian 10

To uninstall only the inventor-demo package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove inventor-demo

Uninstall inventor-demo And Its Dependencies

To uninstall inventor-demo and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove inventor-demo

Remove inventor-demo Configurations and Data

To remove inventor-demo configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge inventor-demo

Remove inventor-demo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove inventor-demo configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge inventor-demo

Dependencies

inventor-demo have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install inventor-demo package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.