How To Install libgdal32 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libgdal32 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libgdal32 is Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgdal32 on Debian 12.

What is libgdal32

libgdal32 is:

GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. The related OGR library (which lives within the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple features vector data.

GDAL supports many popular data formats, including commonly used ones (GeoTIFF, JPEG, PNG and more) as well as the ones used in GIS and remote sensing software packages (ERDAS Imagine, ESRI Arc/Info, ENVI, PCI Geomatics). Also supported many remote sensing and scientific data distribution formats such as HDF, EOS FAST, NOAA L1B, NetCDF, FITS.

OGR library supports popular vector formats like ESRI Shapefile, TIGER data, S57, MapInfo File, DGN, GML and more.

This package contains the shared library.

There are three methods to install libgdal32 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libgdal32 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libgdal32 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libgdal32

Install libgdal32 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libgdal32 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libgdal32

Install libgdal32 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 libgdal32 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libgdal32

How To Uninstall libgdal32 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libgdal32 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libgdal32

Uninstall libgdal32 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libgdal32 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgdal32

Remove libgdal32 Configurations and Data

To remove libgdal32 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libgdal32

Remove libgdal32 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libgdal32 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgdal32

Dependencies

libgdal32 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgdal32 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.