How To Install liblwgeom-2.5-0 on Debian 10

Learn how to install liblwgeom-2.5-0 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. liblwgeom-2.5-0 is PostGIS Lightweight Geometry library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblwgeom-2.5-0 on Debian 10.

What is liblwgeom-2.5-0

liblwgeom-2.5-0 is:

PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS “spatially enables” the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRI’s SDE or Oracle’s Spatial extension. PostGIS follows the OpenGIS “Simple Features Specification for SQL”.

This library is the generic geometry handling section of PostGIS. The geometry objects, constructors, destructors, and a set of spatial processing functions, are implemented here.

There are three methods to install liblwgeom-2.5-0 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 liblwgeom-2.5-0 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblwgeom-2.5-0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblwgeom-2.5-0

Install liblwgeom-2.5-0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblwgeom-2.5-0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblwgeom-2.5-0

Install liblwgeom-2.5-0 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 liblwgeom-2.5-0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblwgeom-2.5-0

How To Uninstall liblwgeom-2.5-0 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the liblwgeom-2.5-0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblwgeom-2.5-0

Uninstall liblwgeom-2.5-0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblwgeom-2.5-0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblwgeom-2.5-0

Remove liblwgeom-2.5-0 Configurations and Data

To remove liblwgeom-2.5-0 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblwgeom-2.5-0

Remove liblwgeom-2.5-0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblwgeom-2.5-0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblwgeom-2.5-0

Dependencies

liblwgeom-2.5-0 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblwgeom-2.5-0 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.