How To Install libinventor1 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libinventor1 on Debian 12.
What is libinventor1
libinventor1 is:
This package contains the required files to run 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.
Recommended package xpdf is needed only to view help files.
There are three methods to install libinventor1 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libinventor1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libinventor1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libinventor1
Install libinventor1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libinventor1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libinventor1
Install libinventor1 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 libinventor1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libinventor1
How To Uninstall libinventor1 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libinventor1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libinventor1
Uninstall libinventor1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libinventor1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libinventor1
Remove libinventor1 Configurations and Data
To remove libinventor1 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libinventor1
Remove libinventor1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libinventor1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libinventor1
Dependencies
libinventor1 have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libfreetype6
- libgcc-s1
- libgl1
- libglu1-mesa
- libjpeg62-turbo
- libstdc++6
- libx11-6
- libxi6
- libxm4
- libxt6
- xfonts-scalable
- fonts-urw-base35
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libinventor1 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
