How To Install geotiff-bin on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geotiff-bin
on Debian 9.
What is geotiff-bin
geotiff-bin is:
This C library supports TIFF 6.0 based interchange format for georeferenced raster imagery. The GeoTIFF standard has been developed for reading, and writing geographic meta-information tags on top of TIFF raster.
The GeoTIFF library comes with two utility programs here included:
listgeo - dumps the metadata of a GeoTIFF file. geotifcp - applies metadata to a TIFF file, making it a GeoTIFF file.
There are three methods to install geotiff-bin
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 geotiff-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install geotiff-bin
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install geotiff-bin
Install geotiff-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install geotiff-bin
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install geotiff-bin
Install geotiff-bin 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 geotiff-bin
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install geotiff-bin
How To Uninstall geotiff-bin on Debian 9
To uninstall only the geotiff-bin
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove geotiff-bin
Uninstall geotiff-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall geotiff-bin
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove geotiff-bin
Remove geotiff-bin Configurations and Data
To remove geotiff-bin
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge geotiff-bin
Remove geotiff-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove geotiff-bin
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge geotiff-bin
Dependencies
geotiff-bin have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geotiff-bin
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.