How To Install spacenavd on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spacenavd on Debian 12.
What is spacenavd
spacenavd is:
A regular computer mouse or trackball is cumbersome to use for 3D applications - one dimension is missing, more if one wants to distinguish tilting from moving or wants to perform both operations at the same time, just like one can do it intuitively with a coffee cup. 3Dconnexion’s has such six-degree-of-freedom input devices that are known as “space navigator”, “space pilot”, “space traveller”, “space mouse”, etc., and once you have them, you likely stop using the mouse and look back in anger about all the time you have wasted in the past to position objects in CAD/CAM or elsewhere.
Spacenavd is a free software replacement user-space driver (daemon) and software development kit for these devices. It is compatible with the original 3dxsrv proprietary daemon provided by 3Dconnexion, and works perfectly with any program that was written for the 3Dconnexion driver. It also offers another method of accessing the device via a new non-X11-dependent protocol.
There are three methods to install spacenavd on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install spacenavd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spacenavd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spacenavd
Install spacenavd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spacenavd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spacenavd
Install spacenavd 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 spacenavd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spacenavd
How To Uninstall spacenavd on Debian 12
To uninstall only the spacenavd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spacenavd
Uninstall spacenavd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spacenavd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spacenavd
Remove spacenavd Configurations and Data
To remove spacenavd configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spacenavd
Remove spacenavd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spacenavd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spacenavd
Dependencies
spacenavd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spacenavd package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
