How To Install gdal-python-tools on CentOS 8

gdal-python-tools is Python tools for the GDAL file format library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gdal-python-tools on CentOS 8.

What is gdal-python-tools

The GDAL Python package provides number of tools for programming and manipulating GDAL file format library

We can use yum or dnf to install gdal-python-tools on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gdal-python-tools.

Install gdal-python-tools on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gdal-python-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gdal-python-tools

Install gdal-python-tools on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gdal-python-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gdal-python-tools

How To Uninstall gdal-python-tools on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the gdal-python-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gdal-python-tools

gdal-python-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/epsg_tr.py
/usr/bin/esri2wkt.py
/usr/bin/gcps2vec.py
/usr/bin/gcps2wld.py
/usr/bin/gdal2tiles.py
/usr/bin/gdal2xyz.py
/usr/bin/gdal_auth.py
/usr/bin/gdal_calc.py
/usr/bin/gdal_edit.py
/usr/bin/gdal_fillnodata.py
/usr/bin/gdal_merge.py
/usr/bin/gdal_pansharpen.py
/usr/bin/gdal_polygonize.py
/usr/bin/gdal_proximity.py
/usr/bin/gdal_retile.py
/usr/bin/gdal_sieve.py
/usr/bin/gdalchksum.py
/usr/bin/gdalcompare.py
/usr/bin/gdalident.py
/usr/bin/gdalimport.py
/usr/bin/gdalmove.py
/usr/bin/mkgraticule.py
/usr/bin/ogrmerge.py
/usr/bin/pct2rgb.py
/usr/bin/rgb2pct.py
/usr/share/man/man1/gdal2tiles.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gdal_fillnodata.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gdal_merge.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gdal_retile.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gdal_sieve.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pct2rgb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rgb2pct.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gdal-python-tools on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.