How To Install liblas-bin on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblas-bin
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liblas-bin
liblas-bin is:
libLAS is a C/C++ library for reading and writing ASPRS LAS versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 data. The LAS format is a sequential binary format used to store data from sensors and as intermediate processing storage by some LiDAR-related applications. LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is an optical remote sensing technology that measures properties of scattered light to find range and/or other information of a distant target. The prevalent method to determine distance to an object or surface is to use laser pulses.
This package contains the essential toolset to manage LiDAR data: lasinfo, lasmerge, las2las, las2txt, txt2las, las2ogr.
There are three methods to install liblas-bin
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liblas-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblas-bin
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblas-bin
Install liblas-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblas-bin
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblas-bin
Install liblas-bin 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 liblas-bin
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblas-bin
How To Uninstall liblas-bin on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liblas-bin
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblas-bin
Uninstall liblas-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblas-bin
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblas-bin
Remove liblas-bin Configurations and Data
To remove liblas-bin
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblas-bin
Remove liblas-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblas-bin
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblas-bin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblas-bin
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.