How To Install libgeotiff on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgeotiff on Rocky Linux 8. libgeotiff is GeoTIFF format library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgeotiff on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libgeotiff

GeoTIFF represents an effort by over 160 different remote sensing, GIS, cartographic, and surveying related companies and organizations to establish a TIFF based interchange format for georeferenced raster imagery.

We can use yum or dnf to install libgeotiff on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libgeotiff.

Install libgeotiff on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libgeotiff using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libgeotiff

Install libgeotiff on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libgeotiff using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libgeotiff

How To Uninstall libgeotiff on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libgeotiff

libgeotiff Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/applygeo
/usr/bin/geotifcp
/usr/bin/listgeo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/5ea65f8b80e57ddac004e336304529be8de937
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/d65cc4b549c5c295e9d86ac4bbf822ca198ad4
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/9d7ff8dea10472cb3e07d477dd557a33f64ec5
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/f5e181e837c9afa2cb9a5ffb13f66a5a4947c1
/usr/lib64/libgeotiff.so.5
/usr/lib64/libgeotiff.so.5.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libgeotiff
/usr/share/doc/libgeotiff/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/libgeotiff
/usr/share/licenses/libgeotiff/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/applygeo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/geotifcp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/listgeo.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgeotiff on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.