How To Install libtachyon-dev-common on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtachyon-dev-common on Debian 9.
What is libtachyon-dev-common
libtachyon-dev-common is:
Tachyon is a portable, high performance parallel ray tracing system supporting MPI and multithreaded implementations. Tachyon is built as a C callable library, which can be used within applications.
Tachyon implements all of the basic geometric primitives such as triangles, planes, spheres, cylinders, etc. Some of the goals in developing Tachyon were to make it fast and for it to parallelize well. These are what set it apart from more full-featured programs like POV-Ray, Rayshade, and others. Tachyon supports enough features to be an excellent alternative to slower programs for demanding animation and scientific visualization tasks.
This package contains the header files that third party developers using the tachyon C library will need.
There are three methods to install libtachyon-dev-common on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libtachyon-dev-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libtachyon-dev-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtachyon-dev-common
Install libtachyon-dev-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libtachyon-dev-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtachyon-dev-common
Install libtachyon-dev-common 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 libtachyon-dev-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtachyon-dev-common
How To Uninstall libtachyon-dev-common on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libtachyon-dev-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtachyon-dev-common
Uninstall libtachyon-dev-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtachyon-dev-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtachyon-dev-common
Remove libtachyon-dev-common Configurations and Data
To remove libtachyon-dev-common configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtachyon-dev-common
Remove libtachyon-dev-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtachyon-dev-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtachyon-dev-common
Dependencies
libtachyon-dev-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtachyon-dev-common package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
