How To Install liboce-ocaf11 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboce-ocaf11 on Ubuntu 18.04. liboce-ocaf11 is OpenCASCADE Community Edition CAE platform shared library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboce-ocaf11 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liboce-ocaf11

liboce-ocaf11 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 provides OpenCASCADE Application Framework services and support for data exchange.

This package contains the following shared libraries: TKCAF TKBin TKXml TKPCAF TKBinTObj TKXmlTObj TKStdSchema TKXCAF TKXCAFSchema TKXmlXCAF TKBinXCAF TKXDEIGES TKXDESTEP

There are three methods to install liboce-ocaf11 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-ocaf11 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-ocaf11 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liboce-ocaf11

Install liboce-ocaf11 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liboce-ocaf11 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liboce-ocaf11

Install liboce-ocaf11 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-ocaf11 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liboce-ocaf11

How To Uninstall liboce-ocaf11 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liboce-ocaf11 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liboce-ocaf11

Uninstall liboce-ocaf11 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liboce-ocaf11 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboce-ocaf11

Remove liboce-ocaf11 Configurations and Data

To remove liboce-ocaf11 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liboce-ocaf11

Remove liboce-ocaf11 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liboce-ocaf11 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboce-ocaf11

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboce-ocaf11 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.