How To Install python3-geopandas on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-geopandas on Debian 9. python3-geopandas is Python3 tools for geographic data

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-geopandas on Debian 9.

What is python3-geopandas

python3-geopandas is:

GeoPandas is a project to add support for geographic data to pandas objects. It currently implements GeoSeries and GeoDataFrame types which are subclasses of pandas.Series and pandas.DataFrame respectively. GeoPandas objects can act on shapely geometry objects and perform geometric operations.

GeoPandas geometry operations are cartesian. The coordinate reference system (crs) can be stored as an attribute on an object, and is automatically set when loading from a file. Objects may be transformed to new coordinate systems with the to_crs() method. There is currently no enforcement of like coordinates for operations, but that may change in the future.

This package contains the Python 3 version of the library.

There are three methods to install python3-geopandas on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python3-geopandas Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-geopandas using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-geopandas

Install python3-geopandas Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-geopandas using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-geopandas

Install python3-geopandas 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-geopandas using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-geopandas

How To Uninstall python3-geopandas on Debian 9

To uninstall only the python3-geopandas package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-geopandas

Uninstall python3-geopandas And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-geopandas and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-geopandas

Remove python3-geopandas Configurations and Data

To remove python3-geopandas configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-geopandas

Remove python3-geopandas configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-geopandas configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-geopandas

Dependencies

python3-geopandas have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-geopandas package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.