How To Install survex-aven on Debian 10

Learn how to install survex-aven on Debian 10 with this tutorial. survex-aven is sophisticated cave survey viewer for Survex

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install survex-aven on Debian 10.

What is survex-aven

survex-aven is:

An advanced cave survey data viewer for Survex, written using the wxWidgets library, and using OpenGL for rendering. Aven allows searching for stations, highlighting categories of stations such entrances or fixed points, measuring the distance between stations, showing passage walls, showing the terrain above the cave, and supports presentations (pre-recorded fly-throughs).

There are three methods to install survex-aven 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 survex-aven Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install survex-aven

Install survex-aven Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install survex-aven

Install survex-aven 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 survex-aven using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install survex-aven

How To Uninstall survex-aven on Debian 10

To uninstall only the survex-aven package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove survex-aven

Uninstall survex-aven And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove survex-aven

Remove survex-aven Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge survex-aven

Remove survex-aven configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge survex-aven

Dependencies

survex-aven have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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