How To Install tachyon-bin-nox on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tachyon-bin-nox on Ubuntu.
What is tachyon-bin-nox
tachyon-bin-nox is:
Tachyon is a portable, high performance parallel ray tracing system supporting MPI and multithreaded implementations. Tachyon is built as a C callable library, which can be used within applications.
Tachyon implements all of the basic geometric primitives such as triangles, planes, spheres, cylinders, etc. Some of the goals in developing Tachyon were to make it fast and for it to parallelize well. These are what set it apart from more full-featured programs like POV-Ray, Rayshade, and others. Tachyon supports enough features to be an excellent alternative to slower programs for demanding animation and scientific visualization tasks.
This package provides a simple scene file parser front-end built upon tachyon but without X support.
There are three methods to install tachyon-bin-nox on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tachyon-bin-nox Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tachyon-bin-nox using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tachyon-bin-nox
Install tachyon-bin-nox Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tachyon-bin-nox using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tachyon-bin-nox
Install tachyon-bin-nox 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 tachyon-bin-nox using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tachyon-bin-nox
How To Uninstall tachyon-bin-nox on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the tachyon-bin-nox package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tachyon-bin-nox
Uninstall tachyon-bin-nox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tachyon-bin-nox and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tachyon-bin-nox
Remove tachyon-bin-nox Configurations and Data
To remove tachyon-bin-nox configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tachyon-bin-nox
Remove tachyon-bin-nox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tachyon-bin-nox configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tachyon-bin-nox
Dependencies
tachyon-bin-nox have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tachyon-bin-nox package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.