How To Install spatialite-gui on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spatialite-gui
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is spatialite-gui
spatialite-gui 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.
There are three methods to install spatialite-gui
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install spatialite-gui 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spatialite-gui
Install spatialite-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spatialite-gui
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spatialite-gui
Install spatialite-gui 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 spatialite-gui
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spatialite-gui
How To Uninstall spatialite-gui on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the spatialite-gui
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spatialite-gui
Uninstall spatialite-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spatialite-gui
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spatialite-gui
Remove spatialite-gui Configurations and Data
To remove spatialite-gui
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spatialite-gui
Remove spatialite-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spatialite-gui
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spatialite-gui
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spatialite-gui
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.