How To Install python-shapely on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-shapely on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-shapely
python-shapely is:
Shapely is a package for manipulation and analysis of 2D features. Its capabilities include:
- calculating the point set unions, intersections, or differences of features
- predicate tests on features: intersects, touches, contains, and more.
Supported geometric types are points, line strings, linear rings, polygons, and homogeneous or heterogeneous collections thereof.
This is the Python 2 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python-shapely 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 python-shapely Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-shapely using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-shapely
Install python-shapely Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-shapely using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-shapely
Install python-shapely 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 python-shapely using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-shapely
How To Uninstall python-shapely on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-shapely package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-shapely
Uninstall python-shapely And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-shapely and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-shapely
Remove python-shapely Configurations and Data
To remove python-shapely configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-shapely
Remove python-shapely configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-shapely configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-shapely
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-shapely package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
