How To Install liboce-modeling11 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboce-modeling11 on Ubuntu 18.04. liboce-modeling11 is OpenCASCADE Community Edition CAE platform shared library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboce-modeling11 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liboce-modeling11

liboce-modeling11 is:

OpenCASCADE is a suite for 3D surface and solid modeling, visualization, data exchange and rapid application development. It is an excellent platform for development of numerical simulation software including CAD/CAM/CAE, AEC and GIS, as well as PDM applications.

This package is based on OCE, OpenCASCADE Community Edition, which is maintained by a community of developers, and not by OpenCASCADE SAS.

This package supplies data structures to represent 2D and 3D geometric models, as well as topological and geometrical algorithms.

This package contains the following shared libraries: TKG2d TKG3d TKGeomBase TKBRep TKGeomAlgo TKTopAlgo TKPrim TKBO TKHLR TKMesh TKShHealing TKXMesh TKBool TKFillet TKFeat TKOffset TKSTL TKXSBase TKSTEPBase TKIGES TKSTEPAttr TKSTEP209 TKSTEP

There are three methods to install liboce-modeling11 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 liboce-modeling11 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liboce-modeling11 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liboce-modeling11

Install liboce-modeling11 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liboce-modeling11 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liboce-modeling11

Install liboce-modeling11 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 liboce-modeling11 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liboce-modeling11

How To Uninstall liboce-modeling11 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liboce-modeling11 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liboce-modeling11

Uninstall liboce-modeling11 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liboce-modeling11 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboce-modeling11

Remove liboce-modeling11 Configurations and Data

To remove liboce-modeling11 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liboce-modeling11

Remove liboce-modeling11 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liboce-modeling11 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboce-modeling11

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboce-modeling11 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.