How To Install povray on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install povray
on Kali Linux.
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 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 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install povray
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install povray Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install povray
using apt
by running the following command:
Install povray 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.
After updating apt database, We can install povray
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall povray on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the povray
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall povray And Its Dependencies
To uninstall povray
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove povray Configurations and Data
To remove povray
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
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:
Dependencies
povray have the following dependencies:
- libboost-thread1.74.0
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libilmbase25
- libjpeg62-turbo
- libopenexr25
- libpng16-16
- libsdl1.2debian
- libstdc++6
- libtiff5
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install povray
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.