How To Install povray on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install povray on Debian 9.
What is povray
povray is:
POV-Ray is a full-featured ray tracer. Ray tracers simulate objects and light sources of the real world to calculate photorealistic, computer generated images. Because of the nature of ray tracing, this process is quite CPU-intensive, at the benefit of more realistic images compared to real time rendering techniques. For example, in POV-Ray, you can model a glass prism, and you will see a spectrum in the resulting image.
POV-Ray by itself is a command-line utility that will take scene descriptions, written in a special easy-to-understand language, to produce ray-traced images (or even a sequence of images, for animations). You can either write those scene-descriptions by hand, or use external tools to generate (parts of) the scene.
povray-includes is highly recommended in addition to this package.
There are three methods to install povray 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 povray Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install povray using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install povray
Install povray Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install povray using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install povray
Install povray 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 povray using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install povray
How To Uninstall povray on Debian 9
To uninstall only the povray package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove povray
Uninstall povray And Its Dependencies
To uninstall povray and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove povray
Remove povray Configurations and Data
To remove povray configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge povray
Remove povray configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove povray configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge povray
Dependencies
povray have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install povray package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.