How To Install tachyon-doc on Debian 10

Learn how to install tachyon-doc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. tachyon-doc is Parallel/Multiprocessor Ray Tracing System - reference manual

Introduction

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

What is tachyon-doc

tachyon-doc 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 provides the reference manual for the tachyon C library. It also contains simple demo sources to build against the tachyon C library and scene material to parse with the simple tachyon scene parser front-end built upon the tachyon C library.

There are three methods to install tachyon-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 tachyon-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 tachyon-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tachyon-doc

Install tachyon-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tachyon-doc

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

sudo aptitude -y install tachyon-doc

How To Uninstall tachyon-doc on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove tachyon-doc

Uninstall tachyon-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tachyon-doc

Remove tachyon-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tachyon-doc

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

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

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

Dependencies

tachyon-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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