How To Install liblasclasses1 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblasclasses1 on Ubuntu 18.04. liblasclasses1 is GDAL add-on tools to perform useful raster processing - liblasClasses

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblasclasses1 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liblasclasses1

liblasclasses1 is:

Pktools is a collection of programs to perform operations, mostly on raster geolocated images. It heavily relies on the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) and OGR. The programs are similar to the GDAL tools (gdalinfo, gdal_translate, gdal_merge, …) and some of the functionalities provided in pktools already exist in the GDAL tools.

All utilities in pktools use command line options and have a built in help, and include more than thirty binaries to edit, change, crop, classify, compare, dump, fill, enhance images and many other common operations useful in the remote sensing field of image analysis.

This package contains the liblasClasses shared library.

There are three methods to install liblasclasses1 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 liblasclasses1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblasclasses1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblasclasses1

Install liblasclasses1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblasclasses1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblasclasses1

Install liblasclasses1 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 liblasclasses1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblasclasses1

How To Uninstall liblasclasses1 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liblasclasses1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblasclasses1

Uninstall liblasclasses1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblasclasses1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblasclasses1

Remove liblasclasses1 Configurations and Data

To remove liblasclasses1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblasclasses1

Remove liblasclasses1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblasclasses1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblasclasses1

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblasclasses1 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.