How To Install gle-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gle-doc
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gle-doc
gle-doc is:
The GLE Tubing and Extrusion library is an extension to OpenGL for drawing tubing and extrusions, including surfaces of revolution, sweeps, tubes, polycones, polycylinders, and helicoids. Generally the extruded surface is specified with a 2D polyline that is extruded along a 3D path. A local coordinate system allows for additional flexibility in the primitives drawn. Extrusions may be texture mapped in a variety of ways.
This package contains documentation and example code.
There are three methods to install gle-doc
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gle-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 gle-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gle-doc
Install gle-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gle-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gle-doc
Install gle-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gle-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gle-doc
How To Uninstall gle-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gle-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gle-doc
Uninstall gle-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gle-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gle-doc
Remove gle-doc Configurations and Data
To remove gle-doc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gle-doc
Remove gle-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gle-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gle-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gle-doc
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.