How To Install osgearth-data on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install osgearth-data on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is osgearth-data
osgearth-data is:
osgEarth is a scalable terrain rendering toolkit for OpenSceneGraph (OSG), an open source, high performance, 3D graphics toolkit. Just create a simple XML file, point it at your imagery, elevation, and vector data, load it into your favorite OSG application, and go! osgEarth supports all kinds of data and comes with lots of examples to help you get up and running quickly and easily.
This package contains data files.
There are three methods to install osgearth-data 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 osgearth-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install osgearth-data using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install osgearth-data
Install osgearth-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install osgearth-data using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install osgearth-data
Install osgearth-data 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 osgearth-data using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install osgearth-data
How To Uninstall osgearth-data on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the osgearth-data package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove osgearth-data
Uninstall osgearth-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall osgearth-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove osgearth-data
Remove osgearth-data Configurations and Data
To remove osgearth-data configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge osgearth-data
Remove osgearth-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove osgearth-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge osgearth-data
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install osgearth-data package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
