How To Install libgeotiff5 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgeotiff5 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libgeotiff5
libgeotiff5 is:
This C library supports TIFF 6.0 based interchange format for georeferenced raster imagery. The GeoTIFF standard has been developed for reading, and writing geographic meta-information tags on top of TIFF raster.
This package contains the shared library only. Task: ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-photography, ubuntustudio-graphics
There are three methods to install libgeotiff5 on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libgeotiff5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libgeotiff5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgeotiff5
Install libgeotiff5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libgeotiff5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgeotiff5
Install libgeotiff5 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libgeotiff5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgeotiff5
How To Uninstall libgeotiff5 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libgeotiff5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgeotiff5
Uninstall libgeotiff5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgeotiff5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgeotiff5
Remove libgeotiff5 Configurations and Data
To remove libgeotiff5 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgeotiff5
Remove libgeotiff5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgeotiff5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgeotiff5
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgeotiff5 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
