How To Install libqglviewer-headers on Debian 10

Learn how to install libqglviewer-headers on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libqglviewer-headers is OpenGL 3D viewer library - header files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libqglviewer-headers on Debian 10.

What is libqglviewer-headers

libqglviewer-headers is:

libqglviewer (also known as libQGLViewer) is a free C++ library based on Qt that enables the quick creation of OpenGL 3D viewers. It features a powerful camera trackball and simple applications simply require an implementation of the draw() function. It is a tool of choice for OpenGL beginners and assignements. It provides screenshot saving, mouse manipulated frames, stereo display, interpolated keyFrames, object selection, and much more. It is fully customizable and easy to extend to create complex applications, with a possible Qt GUI.

This package contains headers.

There are three methods to install libqglviewer-headers 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 libqglviewer-headers Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libqglviewer-headers

Install libqglviewer-headers Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libqglviewer-headers

Install libqglviewer-headers 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 libqglviewer-headers using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libqglviewer-headers

How To Uninstall libqglviewer-headers on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libqglviewer-headers package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libqglviewer-headers

Uninstall libqglviewer-headers And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libqglviewer-headers

Remove libqglviewer-headers Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libqglviewer-headers

Remove libqglviewer-headers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libqglviewer-headers

Dependencies

libqglviewer-headers have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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