How To Install mandelbulber2-data on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mandelbulber2-data on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mandelbulber2-data
mandelbulber2-data is:
Mandelbulber2 is a ray-tracing application for drawing three-dimensional fractals, like Mandelbulb, Mandelbox, Julia, trigonometric, hypercomplex or IFS fractals. It is highly customizable and features complex shading algorithms (among the others there are shadows, depth of field, ambient occlusion).
Mandelbulber2 is also able to produce animations and has a simple built-in 3D navigator for exploring the fractals.
Mandelbulber2 is a complete rewriting from scratches of Mandelbulber by the same author. It will obsolete Mandelbulber as soon as it reaches feature parity.
This package contains architecture-independent data files for Mandelbulber2.
There are three methods to install mandelbulber2-data 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 mandelbulber2-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mandelbulber2-data using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mandelbulber2-data
Install mandelbulber2-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mandelbulber2-data using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mandelbulber2-data
Install mandelbulber2-data 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 mandelbulber2-data using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mandelbulber2-data
How To Uninstall mandelbulber2-data on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mandelbulber2-data package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mandelbulber2-data
Uninstall mandelbulber2-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mandelbulber2-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mandelbulber2-data
Remove mandelbulber2-data Configurations and Data
To remove mandelbulber2-data configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mandelbulber2-data
Remove mandelbulber2-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mandelbulber2-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mandelbulber2-data
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mandelbulber2-data package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
