How To Install libembree-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libembree-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libembree-dev
libembree-dev is:
Intel(R) Embree is a collection of high-performance ray tracing kernels, developed at Intel. The target users of Intel(R) Embree are graphics application engineers who want to improve the performance of their photo-realistic rendering application by leveraging Embree’s performance-optimized ray tracing kernels. The kernels are optimized for the latest Intel(R) processors with support for SSE, AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512 instructions. Intel(R) Embree supports runtime code selection to choose the traversal and build algorithms that best matches the instruction set of your CPU.
This package contains the headers library for building programs that use Embree.
There are three methods to install libembree-dev
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 libembree-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 libembree-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libembree-dev
Install libembree-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libembree-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libembree-dev
Install libembree-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libembree-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libembree-dev
How To Uninstall libembree-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libembree-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libembree-dev
Uninstall libembree-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libembree-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libembree-dev
Remove libembree-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libembree-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libembree-dev
Remove libembree-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libembree-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libembree-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libembree-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.