How To Install libtachyon-mt-0-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtachyon-mt-0-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libtachyon-mt-0-dev
libtachyon-mt-0-dev is:
Tachyon is a portable, high performance parallel ray tracing system supporting MPI and multithreaded implementations. Tachyon is built as a C callable library, which can be used within applications.
Tachyon implements all of the basic geometric primitives such as triangles, planes, spheres, cylinders, etc. Some of the goals in developing Tachyon were to make it fast and for it to parallelize well. These are what set it apart from more full-featured programs like POV-Ray, Rayshade, and others. Tachyon supports enough features to be an excellent alternative to slower programs for demanding animation and scientific visualization tasks.
This package contains the static libraries and symbolic links that third party developers using the tachyon C library built with multithreading will need.
There are three methods to install libtachyon-mt-0-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libtachyon-mt-0-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 libtachyon-mt-0-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtachyon-mt-0-dev
Install libtachyon-mt-0-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libtachyon-mt-0-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtachyon-mt-0-dev
Install libtachyon-mt-0-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 libtachyon-mt-0-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtachyon-mt-0-dev
How To Uninstall libtachyon-mt-0-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libtachyon-mt-0-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtachyon-mt-0-dev
Uninstall libtachyon-mt-0-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtachyon-mt-0-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtachyon-mt-0-dev
Remove libtachyon-mt-0-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libtachyon-mt-0-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtachyon-mt-0-dev
Remove libtachyon-mt-0-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtachyon-mt-0-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtachyon-mt-0-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtachyon-mt-0-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.