How To Install libinventor1 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libinventor1
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libinventor1
Remove libinventor1 Configurations and Data
To remove libinventor1
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libinventor1
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.