How To Install ifrit on Debian 10

Learn how to install ifrit on Debian 10 with this tutorial. ifrit is powerful tool for visualizing 3-dimensional data sets

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ifrit on Debian 10.

What is ifrit

ifrit is:

IFRIT (the Ionization FRont Interactive Tool) has its origins (and hence name) in a specialized utility designed to visualize ionization fronts in cosmological numerical simulations. IFRIT, however, has outgrown its origins and now can visualize general data sets as well.

IFRIT is written in C++ and is based on two state-of-the-art toolkits: the Visualization ToolKit (VTK) and a GUI toolkit QT.

There are three methods to install ifrit on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ifrit Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ifrit

Install ifrit Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ifrit

Install ifrit 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 ifrit using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ifrit

How To Uninstall ifrit on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove ifrit

Uninstall ifrit And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ifrit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ifrit

Remove ifrit Configurations and Data

To remove ifrit configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ifrit

Remove ifrit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ifrit

Dependencies

ifrit have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ifrit package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.