How To Install python3-mercantile on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-mercantile
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is python3-mercantile
python3-mercantile is:
The mercantile module provides functions that respectively return the upper left corner and bounding longitudes and latitudes for XYZ tiles, spherical mercator x and y coordinates, tile containing a given point, and quadkey conversion functions for translating between quadkey and tile coordinates.
Also in mercantile are functions to traverse the tile stack. Named tuples are used to represent tiles, coordinates, and bounding boxes.
This package contains the module for Python 3.
There are three methods to install python3-mercantile
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python3-mercantile Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-mercantile
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-mercantile
Install python3-mercantile Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-mercantile
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-mercantile
Install python3-mercantile 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 python3-mercantile
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-mercantile
How To Uninstall python3-mercantile on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the python3-mercantile
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-mercantile
Uninstall python3-mercantile And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-mercantile
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-mercantile
Remove python3-mercantile Configurations and Data
To remove python3-mercantile
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-mercantile
Remove python3-mercantile configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-mercantile
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-mercantile
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-mercantile
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.