How To Install pktools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pktools
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is pktools
pktools 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. They 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.
There are three methods to install pktools
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pktools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pktools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pktools
Install pktools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pktools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pktools
Install pktools 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 pktools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pktools
How To Uninstall pktools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the pktools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pktools
Uninstall pktools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pktools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pktools
Remove pktools Configurations and Data
To remove pktools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pktools
Remove pktools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pktools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pktools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pktools
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.