How To Install geotiff-bin on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geotiff-bin on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geotiff-bin package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
