How To Install libosd-doc on Debian 12

Learn how to install libosd-doc on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libosd-doc is high performance subdivision surface (subdiv) library - documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libosd-doc on Debian 12.

What is libosd-doc

libosd-doc is:

OpenSubdiv is a set of open source libraries that implement high performance subdivision surface (subdiv) evaluation on massively parallel CPU and GPU architectures. This codepath is optimized for drawing deforming subdivs with static topology at interactive framerates. The resulting limit surface matches Pixar’s Renderman to numerical precision.

This package provides the documentation.

There are three methods to install libosd-doc 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 libosd-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libosd-doc

Install libosd-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libosd-doc

Install libosd-doc 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 libosd-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libosd-doc

How To Uninstall libosd-doc on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libosd-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libosd-doc

Uninstall libosd-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libosd-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libosd-doc

Remove libosd-doc Configurations and Data

To remove libosd-doc configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libosd-doc

Remove libosd-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libosd-doc

Dependencies

libosd-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libosd-doc package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.