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