How To Install libvolpack1-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvolpack1-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libvolpack1-dev
libvolpack1-dev is:
VolPack is a software library for fast, high-quality volume rendering with this features:
- Renders data sampled on a regular, three-dimensional grid.
- Supports user-specified transfer functions for both opacity and color.
- Provides a shading model with directional light sources, multiple material types with different reflective properties, depth cueing, and shadows.
- Produces color (24 bits/pixel) or grayscale (8 bits/pixel) renderings, with or without an alpha channel.
- Supports arbitrary affine view transformations.
- Supports a flexible data format that allows an arbitrary C structure to be associated with each voxel.
This is the development package.
There are three methods to install libvolpack1-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 libvolpack1-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 libvolpack1-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvolpack1-dev
Install libvolpack1-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvolpack1-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvolpack1-dev
Install libvolpack1-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 libvolpack1-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvolpack1-dev
How To Uninstall libvolpack1-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libvolpack1-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvolpack1-dev
Uninstall libvolpack1-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvolpack1-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvolpack1-dev
Remove libvolpack1-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libvolpack1-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvolpack1-dev
Remove libvolpack1-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvolpack1-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvolpack1-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvolpack1-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
