How To Install libreadosm-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreadosm-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. libreadosm-doc is simple library to parse OpenStreetMap files - documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreadosm-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libreadosm-doc

libreadosm-doc is:

ReadOSM is an open source library to extract valid data from within an OpenStreetMap input file. Such OSM files come in two different formats, .osm (XML) and .pbf.

Some of the design goals of ReadOSM are:

  • to be simple and lightweight
  • to be stable, robust and efficient
  • to be easily and universally portable
  • making the whole parsing process of both .osm or .osm.pbf files completely transparent from the application own perspective.

This package contains the library documentation..

There are three methods to install libreadosm-doc 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 libreadosm-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libreadosm-doc

Install libreadosm-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libreadosm-doc

Install libreadosm-doc 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 libreadosm-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libreadosm-doc

How To Uninstall libreadosm-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libreadosm-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libreadosm-doc

Uninstall libreadosm-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libreadosm-doc

Remove libreadosm-doc Configurations and Data

To remove libreadosm-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libreadosm-doc

Remove libreadosm-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libreadosm-doc

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Summary

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