Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tachyon on Kali Linux.
What is tachyon
tachyon 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 metapackage allows multi-variant support for tools built upon tachyon.
There are three methods to install tachyon 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 tachyon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install tachyon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tachyon
Install tachyon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tachyon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tachyonInstall tachyon 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.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install tachyon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tachyon
How To Uninstall tachyon on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the tachyon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tachyon
Uninstall tachyon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tachyon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tachyon
Remove tachyon Configurations and Data
To remove tachyon configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tachyon
Remove tachyon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tachyon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tachyon
Dependencies
tachyon have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tachyon package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
