How to Install and Uninstall tachyon Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "tachyon" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install tachyon on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                tachyon
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "tachyon" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall tachyon on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                tachyon
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the tachyon package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: tachyon
Priority: extra
Section: universe/math
Installed-Size: 16
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers
Architecture: all
Version: 0.99~b6+dsx-4
Depends: tachyon-bin-nox | tachyon-bin
Filename: pool/universe/t/tachyon/tachyon_0.99~b6+dsx-4_all.deb
Size: 4344
MD5sum: 54a8c56a2d08ec374ecf8bac85746c5b
SHA1: 91a76e15431b1857e5d0a712a23d0d8928540f33
SHA256: 6d3c741e6353b80fe1d9fa4a2e232d8a9bfd8062f9af48dfecaae080e30dfce9
Description-en: Parallel/Multiprocessor Standalone Ray Tracer - metapackage
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.
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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.
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This metapackage allows multi-variant support for tools built upon tachyon.
Description-md5: 1142396a17648b9f36cba9905a11f252
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://jedi.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/raytracer/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu