How To Install thuban on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install thuban on Debian 10.
What is thuban
thuban is:
Thuban can read geographic data in the shapefile format. Main features of thuban are the layer management and the possibility to navigate on the map, to control the visual appearance of objects, to identify and edit attributes by object selection and to print and export the resulting maps for further processing.
This package contains the thuban program and its libraries.
There are three methods to install thuban on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install thuban Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install thuban using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install thuban
Install thuban Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install thuban using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install thuban
Install thuban 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 thuban using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install thuban
How To Uninstall thuban on Debian 10
To uninstall only the thuban package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove thuban
Uninstall thuban And Its Dependencies
To uninstall thuban and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove thuban
Remove thuban Configurations and Data
To remove thuban configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge thuban
Remove thuban configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove thuban configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge thuban
Dependencies
thuban have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install thuban package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.