How To Install paraview-doc on Debian 10

Learn how to install paraview-doc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. paraview-doc is Parallel Visualization Application. Comprehensive documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install paraview-doc on Debian 10.

What is paraview-doc

paraview-doc is:

ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform application designed to visualize data sets of size varying from small to very large. The goals of the ParaView project include the following:

 * Develop an open-source, multi-platform visualization application.
 * Support distributed computation models to process large data sets.
 * Create an open, flexible, and intuitive user interface.
 * Develop an extensible architecture based on open standards.

ParaView runs on distributed and shared memory parallel as well as single processor systems and has been successfully tested on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and various Unix workstations, clusters and supercomputers. Under the hood, ParaView uses the Visualization Toolkit as the data processing and rendering engine and has a user interface written using Qt. Comprehensive documentation.

There are three methods to install paraview-doc 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 paraview-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install paraview-doc

Install paraview-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install paraview-doc

Install paraview-doc 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 paraview-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install paraview-doc

How To Uninstall paraview-doc on Debian 10

To uninstall only the paraview-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove paraview-doc

Uninstall paraview-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove paraview-doc

Remove paraview-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge paraview-doc

Remove paraview-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge paraview-doc

Dependencies

paraview-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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