How To Install node-mbtiles on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-mbtiles on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is node-mbtiles
node-mbtiles is:
node-mbtiles implements the tilelive API and as such is a registerable tilestore URI protocol handler for writing to MBTiles format.
MBTiles is a specification for storing tiled map data in SQLite databases for immediate usage and for transfer.
node-tilelive is an interface for tile backends for Node.js.
Node.js is an event-based server-side javascript engine.
There are three methods to install node-mbtiles 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 node-mbtiles Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install node-mbtiles using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-mbtiles
Install node-mbtiles Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-mbtiles using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-mbtiles
Install node-mbtiles 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 node-mbtiles using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-mbtiles
How To Uninstall node-mbtiles on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the node-mbtiles package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-mbtiles
Uninstall node-mbtiles And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-mbtiles and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-mbtiles
Remove node-mbtiles Configurations and Data
To remove node-mbtiles configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-mbtiles
Remove node-mbtiles configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-mbtiles configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-mbtiles
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-mbtiles package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
