How To Install inventor-clients on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install inventor-clients on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is inventor-clients
inventor-clients is:
This package contains Open Inventor file viewers and converters.
Open Inventor is an object-oriented 3D toolkit offering a comprehensive solution to interactive graphics programming problems. It presents a programming model based on a 3D scene database that simplifies graphics programming. It includes a large set of objects such as cubes, polygons, text, materials, cameras, lights, trackballs, handle boxes, 3D viewers, and editors can speed up your programming and extend your 3D program’s capabilities.
There are three methods to install inventor-clients on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install inventor-clients Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install inventor-clients using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install inventor-clients
Install inventor-clients Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install inventor-clients using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install inventor-clients
Install inventor-clients 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 inventor-clients using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install inventor-clients
How To Uninstall inventor-clients on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the inventor-clients package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove inventor-clients
Uninstall inventor-clients And Its Dependencies
To uninstall inventor-clients and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove inventor-clients
Remove inventor-clients Configurations and Data
To remove inventor-clients configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge inventor-clients
Remove inventor-clients configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove inventor-clients configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge inventor-clients
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install inventor-clients package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
