How To Install field3d-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install field3d-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is field3d-tools
field3d-tools is:
Field3D is an open source library for storing voxel data.
It provides C++ classes that handle in-memory storage and a file format based on HDF5 that allows the C++ objects to be written to and read from disk.
This package contains the command-line tools.
There are three methods to install field3d-tools on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install field3d-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install field3d-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install field3d-tools
Install field3d-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install field3d-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install field3d-tools
Install field3d-tools 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install field3d-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install field3d-tools
How To Uninstall field3d-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the field3d-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove field3d-tools
Uninstall field3d-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall field3d-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove field3d-tools
Remove field3d-tools Configurations and Data
To remove field3d-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge field3d-tools
Remove field3d-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove field3d-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge field3d-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install field3d-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.