How To Install libgdal-perl-doc on Debian 10

Learn how to install libgdal-perl-doc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libgdal-perl-doc is Documentation for GDAL Perl bindings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgdal-perl-doc on Debian 10.

What is libgdal-perl-doc

libgdal-perl-doc is:

As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. The related OGR library (which lives within the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple features vector data.

GDAL supports 40+ popular data formats, including commonly used ones (GeoTIFF, JPEG, PNG and more) as well as the ones used in GIS and remote sensing software packages (ERDAS Imagine, ESRI Arc/Info, ENVI, PCI Geomatics). Also supported many remote sensing and scientific data distribution formats such as HDF, EOS FAST, NOAA L1B, NetCDF, FITS.

OGR library supports popular vector formats like ESRI Shapefile, TIGER data, S57, MapInfo File, DGN, GML and more.

This package contains the documentation of the Perl bindings for GDAL/OGR library.

There are three methods to install libgdal-perl-doc 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 libgdal-perl-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libgdal-perl-doc

Install libgdal-perl-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libgdal-perl-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libgdal-perl-doc

Install libgdal-perl-doc 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 libgdal-perl-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libgdal-perl-doc

How To Uninstall libgdal-perl-doc on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libgdal-perl-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libgdal-perl-doc

Uninstall libgdal-perl-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgdal-perl-doc

Remove libgdal-perl-doc Configurations and Data

To remove libgdal-perl-doc configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libgdal-perl-doc

Remove libgdal-perl-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libgdal-perl-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgdal-perl-doc

Dependencies

libgdal-perl-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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