How To Install povray-examples on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install povray-examples
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 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 povray-examples
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install povray-examples
How To Uninstall povray-examples on Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install povray-examples
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.