How To Install gltfpack on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gltfpack on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gltfpack
gltfpack is:
gltfpack is a tool that can automatically optimize glTF files to reduce the download size and improve loading and rendering speed.
It substantially changes the glTF data by optimizing the meshes for vertex fetch and transform cache, quantizing the geometry to reduce the memory consumption and size, merging meshes to reduce the draw call count, quantizing and resampling animations to reduce animation size and simplify playback, and pruning the node tree by removing or collapsing redundant nodes. It will also simplify the meshes when requested to do so.
There are three methods to install gltfpack on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gltfpack Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gltfpack using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gltfpack
Install gltfpack Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gltfpack using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gltfpack
Install gltfpack 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 gltfpack using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gltfpack
How To Uninstall gltfpack on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gltfpack package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gltfpack
Uninstall gltfpack And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gltfpack and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gltfpack
Remove gltfpack Configurations and Data
To remove gltfpack configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gltfpack
Remove gltfpack configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gltfpack configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gltfpack
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gltfpack package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
