How To Install libbase1 on Debian 10

Learn how to install libbase1 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libbase1 is GDAL add-on tools to perform useful raster processing - libbase

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbase1 on Debian 10.

What is libbase1

libbase1 is:

Pktools is a collection of programs to perform operations, mostly on raster geolocated images. It heavily relies on the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) and OGR. The programs are similar to the GDAL tools (gdalinfo, gdal_translate, gdal_merge, …) and some of the functionalities provided in pktools already exist in the GDAL tools.

All utilities in pktools use command line options and have a built in help, and include more than thirty binaries to edit, change, crop, classify, compare, dump, fill, enhance images and many other common operations useful in the remote sensing field of image analysis.

This package contains the libbase shared library.

There are three methods to install libbase1 on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libbase1 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libbase1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libbase1

Install libbase1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libbase1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libbase1

Install libbase1 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libbase1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libbase1

How To Uninstall libbase1 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libbase1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libbase1

Uninstall libbase1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libbase1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbase1

Remove libbase1 Configurations and Data

To remove libbase1 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libbase1

Remove libbase1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libbase1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbase1

Dependencies

libbase1 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbase1 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.