How To Install node-tilelive-bridge on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-tilelive-bridge on Debian 9. node-tilelive-bridge is Tilelive store for generating mapnik vector tiles - Node.js module

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-tilelive-bridge on Debian 9.

What is node-tilelive-bridge

node-tilelive-bridge is:

node-tilelive-bridge implements the tilelive API and as such is a registerable tilestore URI protocol handler for generating mapnik vector tiles from traditional mapnik datasources.

node-tilelive is an interface for tile backends for Node.js.

mapnik is a C++/Python toolkit for developing GIS applications.

Node.js is an event-based server-side javascript engine.

There are three methods to install node-tilelive-bridge on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install node-tilelive-bridge Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install node-tilelive-bridge

Install node-tilelive-bridge Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install node-tilelive-bridge using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install node-tilelive-bridge

Install node-tilelive-bridge 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 node-tilelive-bridge using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-tilelive-bridge

How To Uninstall node-tilelive-bridge on Debian 9

To uninstall only the node-tilelive-bridge package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove node-tilelive-bridge

Uninstall node-tilelive-bridge And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-tilelive-bridge and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-tilelive-bridge

Remove node-tilelive-bridge Configurations and Data

To remove node-tilelive-bridge configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-tilelive-bridge

Remove node-tilelive-bridge configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove node-tilelive-bridge configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-tilelive-bridge

Dependencies

node-tilelive-bridge have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-tilelive-bridge package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.