How To Install libopenscenegraph-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenscenegraph-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libopenscenegraph-dev
libopenscenegraph-dev is:
A portable, high level graphics toolkit for the development of high performance graphics applications such as flight simulators, games, virtual reality or scientific visualization. Providing an object orientated framework on top of OpenGL, it frees the developer from implementing and optimizing low level graphics calls, and provide many additional utilities for rapid development of graphics applications.
This package contains the development headers.
There are three methods to install libopenscenegraph-dev 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 libopenscenegraph-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 libopenscenegraph-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libopenscenegraph-dev
Install libopenscenegraph-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libopenscenegraph-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libopenscenegraph-dev
Install libopenscenegraph-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 libopenscenegraph-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libopenscenegraph-dev
How To Uninstall libopenscenegraph-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libopenscenegraph-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libopenscenegraph-dev
Uninstall libopenscenegraph-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libopenscenegraph-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopenscenegraph-dev
Remove libopenscenegraph-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libopenscenegraph-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libopenscenegraph-dev
Remove libopenscenegraph-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libopenscenegraph-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopenscenegraph-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenscenegraph-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.