How To Install fonts-povray on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-povray
on Debian 12.
What is fonts-povray
fonts-povray is:
POV-Ray is a full-featured ray tracer. Ray tracers simulate objects and light sources of the real world to calculate photorealistic, computer generated images. Because of the nature of ray tracing, this process is quite CPU-intensive, at the benefit of more realistic images compared to real time rendering techniques. For example, in POV-Ray, you can model a glass prism, and you will see a spectrum in the resulting image.
POV-Ray by itself is a command-line utility that will take scene descriptions, written in a special easy-to-understand language, to produce ray-traced images (or even a sequence of images, for animations). You can either write those scene-descriptions by hand, or use external tools to generate (parts of) the scene.
This package contains the fonts coming with povray.
There are three methods to install fonts-povray
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fonts-povray Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-povray
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fonts-povray
Install fonts-povray Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fonts-povray
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fonts-povray
Install fonts-povray 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 fonts-povray
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fonts-povray
How To Uninstall fonts-povray on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fonts-povray
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fonts-povray
Uninstall fonts-povray And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fonts-povray
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fonts-povray
Remove fonts-povray Configurations and Data
To remove fonts-povray
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fonts-povray
Remove fonts-povray configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fonts-povray
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fonts-povray
Dependencies
fonts-povray have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-povray
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.