How To Install libtachyon-openmpi-0 on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtachyon-openmpi-0 on Debian 9. libtachyon-openmpi-0 is Parallel/Multiprocessor Ray Tracing Library - runtime - OpenMPI flavour

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtachyon-openmpi-0 on Debian 9.

What is libtachyon-openmpi-0

libtachyon-openmpi-0 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 provides the shared library required to run third party program compiled against the tachyon C library built against OpenMPI. To compile your own programs you also need to install the concomitant libtachyon-openmpi-0-dev package.

There are three methods to install libtachyon-openmpi-0 on Debian 9. 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-openmpi-0 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-openmpi-0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libtachyon-openmpi-0

Install libtachyon-openmpi-0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libtachyon-openmpi-0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libtachyon-openmpi-0

Install libtachyon-openmpi-0 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 libtachyon-openmpi-0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libtachyon-openmpi-0

How To Uninstall libtachyon-openmpi-0 on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libtachyon-openmpi-0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libtachyon-openmpi-0

Uninstall libtachyon-openmpi-0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libtachyon-openmpi-0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtachyon-openmpi-0

Remove libtachyon-openmpi-0 Configurations and Data

To remove libtachyon-openmpi-0 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libtachyon-openmpi-0

Remove libtachyon-openmpi-0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libtachyon-openmpi-0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtachyon-openmpi-0

Dependencies

libtachyon-openmpi-0 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtachyon-openmpi-0 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.