How To Install tilecache on Debian 10

Learn how to install tilecache on Debian 10 with this tutorial. tilecache is Web map tile caching system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tilecache on Debian 10.

What is tilecache

tilecache is:

TileCache is an implementation of a WMS-C compliant server made available by MetaCarta. TileCache provides a Python-based WMS/TMS server, with pluggable caching mechanisms and rendering backends. In the simplest use case, TileCache requires only write access to a disk, the ability to run Python CGI scripts, and a WMS you want to be cached. With these resources, you can create your own local disk-based cache of any WMS server, and use the result in any WMS-C supporting client, like OpenLayers, or any TMS supporting client, like OpenLayers and worldKit.

There are three methods to install tilecache 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 tilecache Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tilecache

Install tilecache Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tilecache using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tilecache

Install tilecache 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 tilecache using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tilecache

How To Uninstall tilecache on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove tilecache

Uninstall tilecache And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tilecache and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tilecache

Remove tilecache Configurations and Data

To remove tilecache configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tilecache

Remove tilecache configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tilecache

Dependencies

tilecache have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tilecache package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.