How To Install pktools-dev on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pktools-dev
on Debian 10.
What is pktools-dev
pktools-dev is:
Pktools is a collection of programs to perform operations, mostly on raster geolocated images. It heavily relies on the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) and OGR. The programs are similar to the GDAL tools (gdalinfo, gdal_translate, gdal_merge, …) and some of the functionalities provided in pktools already exist in the GDAL tools.
All utilities in pktools use command line options and have a built in help, and include more than thirty binaries to edit, change, crop, classify, compare, dump, fill, enhance images and many other common operations useful in the remote sensing field of image analysis.
This package contains the files needed to develop a software that uses the pktools libraries.
There are three methods to install pktools-dev
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 pktools-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pktools-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pktools-dev
Install pktools-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pktools-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pktools-dev
Install pktools-dev 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 pktools-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pktools-dev
How To Uninstall pktools-dev on Debian 10
To uninstall only the pktools-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pktools-dev
Uninstall pktools-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pktools-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pktools-dev
Remove pktools-dev Configurations and Data
To remove pktools-dev
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pktools-dev
Remove pktools-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pktools-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pktools-dev
Dependencies
pktools-dev have the following dependencies:
- libalgorithms1
- libbase1
- libfileclasses1
- libimageclasses1
- liblasclasses1
- libgdal-dev
- libarmadillo-dev
- liblas-c-dev
- libgsl-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pktools-dev
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.