How To Install povray-examples on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install povray-examples on Kali Linux.

What is povray-examples

povray-examples 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.

This package contains sample files.

There are three methods to install povray-examples on Kali Linux. 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-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 povray-examples using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install povray-examples

Install povray-examples Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install povray-examples

Install povray-examples Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install povray-examples

How To Uninstall povray-examples on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the povray-examples package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove povray-examples

Uninstall povray-examples And Its Dependencies

To uninstall povray-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove povray-examples

Remove povray-examples Configurations and Data

To remove povray-examples configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge povray-examples

Remove povray-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge povray-examples

Dependencies

povray-examples have the following dependencies:

• povray-includes

References

• povray-examples website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install povray-examples package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.