How To Install paraview-dev on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install paraview-dev on Debian 9. paraview-dev is Parallel Visualization Application. Development header files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install paraview-dev on Debian 9.

What is paraview-dev

paraview-dev is:

ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform application designed to visualize data sets of size varying from small to very large. The goals of the ParaView project include the following:

 * Develop an open-source, multi-platform visualization application.
 * Support distributed computation models to process large data sets.
 * Create an open, flexible, and intuitive user interface.
 * Develop an extensible architecture based on open standards.

ParaView runs on distributed and shared memory parallel as well as single processor systems and has been successfully tested on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and various Unix workstations, clusters and supercomputers. Under the hood, ParaView uses the Visualization Toolkit as the data processing and rendering engine and has a user interface written using Qt. Development header files

There are three methods to install paraview-dev 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 paraview-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 paraview-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install paraview-dev

Install paraview-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install paraview-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install paraview-dev

Install paraview-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install paraview-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install paraview-dev

How To Uninstall paraview-dev on Debian 9

To uninstall only the paraview-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove paraview-dev

Uninstall paraview-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove paraview-dev

Remove paraview-dev Configurations and Data

To remove paraview-dev configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge paraview-dev

Remove paraview-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove paraview-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge paraview-dev

Dependencies

paraview-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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