How To Install libosgearthsplat5 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libosgearthsplat5 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libosgearthsplat5
libosgearthsplat5 is:
osgEarth is a scalable terrain rendering toolkit for OpenSceneGraph (OSG), an open source, high performance, 3D graphics toolkit. Just create a simple XML file, point it at your imagery, elevation, and vector data, load it into your favorite OSG application, and go! osgEarth supports all kinds of data and comes with lots of examples to help you get up and running quickly and easily.
This package contains the shared library libosgEarthSplat.
There are three methods to install libosgearthsplat5 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 libosgearthsplat5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libosgearthsplat5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libosgearthsplat5
Install libosgearthsplat5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libosgearthsplat5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libosgearthsplat5
Install libosgearthsplat5 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 libosgearthsplat5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libosgearthsplat5
How To Uninstall libosgearthsplat5 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libosgearthsplat5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libosgearthsplat5
Uninstall libosgearthsplat5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libosgearthsplat5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libosgearthsplat5
Remove libosgearthsplat5 Configurations and Data
To remove libosgearthsplat5 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libosgearthsplat5
Remove libosgearthsplat5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libosgearthsplat5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libosgearthsplat5
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libosgearthsplat5 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
