How To Install gltfpack on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gltfpack on Kali Linux.

What is gltfpack

gltfpack is:

gltfpack is a tool that can automatically optimize glTF files to reduce the download size and improve loading and rendering speed.

It substantially changes the glTF data by optimizing the meshes for vertex fetch and transform cache, quantizing the geometry to reduce the memory consumption and size, merging meshes to reduce the draw call count, quantizing and resampling animations to reduce animation size and simplify playback, and pruning the node tree by removing or collapsing redundant nodes. It will also simplify the meshes when requested to do so.

There are three methods to install gltfpack 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 gltfpack Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gltfpack

Install gltfpack Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gltfpack using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gltfpack

Install gltfpack 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 gltfpack using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gltfpack

How To Uninstall gltfpack on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gltfpack package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gltfpack

Uninstall gltfpack And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gltfpack and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gltfpack

Remove gltfpack Configurations and Data

To remove gltfpack configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gltfpack

Remove gltfpack configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gltfpack

Dependencies

gltfpack have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libmeshoptimizer0d
• libstdc++6

References

• gltfpack website

Summary

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