How To Install tilemaker on Debian 12

Learn how to install tilemaker on Debian 12 with this tutorial. tilemaker is Generates vector tiles from OpenStreetMap data

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tilemaker on Debian 12.

What is `tilemaker`

tilemaker is:

tilemaker is a single executable command that takes OpenStreetMap data as planet or diff files and directly makes it into vector tiles. It’s supremely customisable, and if you just want off-the-shelf tiles in a standard style, tilemaker comes bundled with the configuration and process files to rely on the schema of OpenMapTiles by default.

There are three methods to install tilemaker on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tilemaker Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tilemaker

Install tilemaker Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tilemaker

Install tilemaker 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 tilemaker using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tilemaker

How To Uninstall tilemaker on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove tilemaker

Uninstall tilemaker And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tilemaker and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tilemaker

Remove tilemaker Configurations and Data

To remove tilemaker configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tilemaker

Remove tilemaker configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tilemaker

Dependencies

tilemaker have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tilemaker package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.