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tetgen


Information about the package, tetgen, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The tetgen package is designed for, A Quality Tetrahedral Mesh Generator.


Package Name:

tetgen

Summary:

A Quality Tetrahedral Mesh Generator

Description:

TetGen is a program to generate tetrahedral meshes of any 3D polyhedral domains. TetGen generates exact constrained Delaunay tetrahedralizations, boundary conforming Delaunay meshes, and Voronoi partitions.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.5.0

Release:

4.el6

Size:

256 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

AGPLv3+



Handy Yum Commands for tetgen


Control the tetgen package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install tetgen

This command will install tetgen on the server.

yum remove tetgen

This command will un-install tetgen on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove tetgen, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove tetgen

This command will un-install tetgen on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove tetgen when using the -y flag.

yum update tetgen

This command will update tetgen to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove tetgen, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update tetgen

This command will update tetgen to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove tetgen when using the -y flag.

yum info tetgen

This command will show you core information about the tetgen package.

yum deplist tetgen

This command will show you the dependencies for tetgen. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update tetgen

This command will check if there is an update waiting on tetgen. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.