How To Install inventor-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install inventor-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. inventor-dev is Open Inventor development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install inventor-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is inventor-dev

inventor-dev is:

This package contains the files required to develop Open Inventor applications.

Open Inventor is an object-oriented 3D toolkit offering a comprehensive solution to interactive graphics programming problems. It presents a programming model based on a 3D scene database that simplifies graphics programming. It includes a large set of objects such as cubes, polygons, text, materials, cameras, lights, trackballs, handle boxes, 3D viewers, and editors can speed up your programming and extend your 3D program’s capabilities.

There are three methods to install inventor-dev 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 inventor-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install inventor-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install inventor-dev

Install inventor-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install inventor-dev

Install inventor-dev 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 inventor-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install inventor-dev

How To Uninstall inventor-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the inventor-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove inventor-dev

Uninstall inventor-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall inventor-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove inventor-dev

Remove inventor-dev Configurations and Data

To remove inventor-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge inventor-dev

Remove inventor-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge inventor-dev

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install inventor-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.