H3 Viewer is a lightweight and user-friendly viewer for the H3 hexagonal grid system. It is available on the Github repository for installation on various operating systems. This tutorial will guide you on how to install H3 Viewer on Debian Latest.
Git is a version control system and is used to clone the H3 Viewer repository from Github.
To install Git on Debian, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install git
After the installation is complete, confirm the version by running:
git --version
To clone the H3 Viewer repository, run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/clupasq/h3-viewer.git
The repository will be cloned to your current working directory.
Before installing the H3 Viewer, you need to install the dependencies. To do this on Debian, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install libglew-dev libglfw3-dev libglm-dev
After installing the dependencies, go to the H3 Viewer directory by running the following command:
cd h3-viewer
To build H3 Viewer on Debian, run the following command:
make
After building H3 Viewer, run the following command to install it:
sudo make install
H3 Viewer is now installed on your Debian system.
To verify that H3 Viewer is correctly installed, run the following command:
h3-viewer
If the installation was successful, the H3 Viewer application will launch, and you can begin using it.
H3 Viewer is an excellent visualization tool for the H3 hexagonal grid system. By following the above-discussed steps, you should now have H3 Viewer up and running on your Debian Latest system. Start exploring the hex grid world!
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