How To Install spatialite-gui-dbg on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install spatialite-gui-dbg on Debian 9. spatialite-gui-dbg is user-friendly graphical user interface for spatialite - debugging symbols

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spatialite-gui-dbg on Debian 9.

What is spatialite-gui-dbg

spatialite-gui-dbg is:

spatialite-gui is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for spatialite.

SpatiaLite is a SQLite extension that enables support of spatial (geometry) data in a way conformant to OpenGis specifications, with both WKT and WKB formats.

Spatialite also includes Virtualshape and Virtualtext to enable accessing shapefiles and csv/text files as virtual tables.

This package contains debugging symbols.

There are three methods to install spatialite-gui-dbg 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 spatialite-gui-dbg Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install spatialite-gui-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install spatialite-gui-dbg

Install spatialite-gui-dbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install spatialite-gui-dbg using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install spatialite-gui-dbg

Install spatialite-gui-dbg 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 spatialite-gui-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install spatialite-gui-dbg

How To Uninstall spatialite-gui-dbg on Debian 9

To uninstall only the spatialite-gui-dbg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove spatialite-gui-dbg

Uninstall spatialite-gui-dbg And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove spatialite-gui-dbg

Remove spatialite-gui-dbg Configurations and Data

To remove spatialite-gui-dbg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge spatialite-gui-dbg

Remove spatialite-gui-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove spatialite-gui-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spatialite-gui-dbg

Dependencies

spatialite-gui-dbg have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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