How To Install mandelbulber on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mandelbulber on Debian 9.
What is mandelbulber
mandelbulber is:
Mandelbulber is a ray-tracing application for drawing three-dimensional fractals, like Mandelbulb, Mandelbox, Julia, trigonometric, hypercomplex or IFS fractals. It is highly customizable and features complex shading algorithms (among the others there are shadows, depth of field, ambient occlusion).
Mandelbulber is also able to produce animations and has a simple built-in 3D navigator for exploring the fractals.
There are three methods to install mandelbulber 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 mandelbulber Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mandelbulber using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mandelbulber
Install mandelbulber Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mandelbulber using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mandelbulber
Install mandelbulber 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 mandelbulber using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mandelbulber
How To Uninstall mandelbulber on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mandelbulber package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mandelbulber
Uninstall mandelbulber And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mandelbulber and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mandelbulber
Remove mandelbulber Configurations and Data
To remove mandelbulber configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mandelbulber
Remove mandelbulber configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mandelbulber configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mandelbulber
Dependencies
mandelbulber have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mandelbulber package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.