How To Install fonts-povray on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-povray on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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

• fonts-povray website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fonts-povray package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.