How To Install owslib-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install owslib-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. owslib-doc is Client library for Open Geospatial (OGC) web services (Documentation)

Introduction

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

What is owslib-doc

owslib-doc is:

OWSLib is a Python package for client programming with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web service (hence OWS) interface standards, and their related content models.

Full documentation is available at https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib

OWSLib provides a common API for accessing service metadata and wrappers for numerous OGC Web Service interfaces.

This package provides the documentation of the library.

There are three methods to install owslib-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 owslib-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 owslib-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install owslib-doc

Install owslib-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install owslib-doc

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

sudo aptitude -y install owslib-doc

How To Uninstall owslib-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove owslib-doc

Uninstall owslib-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove owslib-doc

Remove owslib-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge owslib-doc

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

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

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

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Summary

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