How To Install inventor-dev on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install inventor-dev on Debian 9.
What is inventor-dev
inventor-dev is:
This package contains the files required to develop Open Inventor applications.
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-dev on Debian 9. 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-dev 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-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install inventor-dev
Install inventor-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install inventor-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install inventor-dev
Install inventor-dev 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 inventor-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install inventor-dev
How To Uninstall inventor-dev on Debian 9
To uninstall only the inventor-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove inventor-dev
Uninstall inventor-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall inventor-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove inventor-dev
Remove inventor-dev Configurations and Data
To remove inventor-dev configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge inventor-dev
Remove inventor-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove inventor-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge inventor-dev
Dependencies
inventor-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install inventor-dev package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.