How To Install paraview on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install paraview on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is paraview
paraview 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.
There are three methods to install paraview 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 paraview 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install paraview
Install paraview Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install paraview using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install paraview
Install paraview 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 paraview using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install paraview
How To Uninstall paraview on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the paraview package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove paraview
Uninstall paraview And Its Dependencies
To uninstall paraview and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove paraview
Remove paraview Configurations and Data
To remove paraview configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge paraview
Remove paraview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove paraview configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge paraview
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install paraview package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
