How To Install openscenegraph-examples on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openscenegraph-examples on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is openscenegraph-examples
openscenegraph-examples is:
A portable, high level graphics toolkit for the development of high performance graphics applications such as flight simulators, games, virtual reality or scientific visualization. Providing an object orientated framework on top of OpenGL, it frees the developer from implementing and optimizing low level graphics calls, and provide many additional utilities for rapid development of graphics applications.
This package contains examples (sources).
There are three methods to install openscenegraph-examples 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 openscenegraph-examples Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openscenegraph-examples using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openscenegraph-examples
Install openscenegraph-examples Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openscenegraph-examples using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openscenegraph-examples
Install openscenegraph-examples 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 openscenegraph-examples using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openscenegraph-examples
How To Uninstall openscenegraph-examples on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the openscenegraph-examples package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openscenegraph-examples
Uninstall openscenegraph-examples And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openscenegraph-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openscenegraph-examples
Remove openscenegraph-examples Configurations and Data
To remove openscenegraph-examples configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openscenegraph-examples
Remove openscenegraph-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openscenegraph-examples configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openscenegraph-examples
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openscenegraph-examples package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
