How To Install spatialindex on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install spatialindex on CentOS 7. spatialindex is Spatial index library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spatialindex on CentOS 7.

What is spatialindex

Spatialindex provides a general framework for developing spatial indices. Currently it defines generic interfaces, provides simple main memory and disk based storage managers and a robust implementation of an R*-tree, an MVR-tree and a TPR-tree.

We can use yum or dnf to install spatialindex on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spatialindex.

Install spatialindex on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install spatialindex using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spatialindex

Install spatialindex on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install spatialindex using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spatialindex

How To Uninstall spatialindex on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the spatialindex package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove spatialindex

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spatialindex on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.