How To Install openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth
openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth is:
osgEarth is a scalable terrain rendering toolkit for OpenSceneGraph (OSG), an open source, high performance, 3D graphics toolkit. Just create a simple XML file, point it at your imagery, elevation, and vector data, load it into your favorite OSG application, and go! osgEarth supports all kinds of data and comes with lots of examples to help you get up and running quickly and easily.
This package contains the OpenSceneGraph plugins.
There are three methods to install openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth 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-plugin-osgearth 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-plugin-osgearth using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth
Install openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth
Install openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth 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-plugin-osgearth using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth
How To Uninstall openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth
Uninstall openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth
Remove openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth Configurations and Data
To remove openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth
Remove openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
