How To Install osmcoastline on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install osmcoastline on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is osmcoastline
osmcoastline is:
OSMCoastline extracts the coastline from an OSM planet file and assembles all the pieces into polygons for use in map renderers etc.
OSMCoastline relies on the Osmium library for its OpenStreetMap data handling.
The Osmium library has extensive support for all types of OSM entities: nodes, ways, relations, and changesets. It allows reading from and writing to OSM files in XML and PBF formats, including change files and full history files. Osmium can store OSM data in memory and on disk in various formats and using various indexes. Its easy to use handler interface allows you to quickly write data filtering and conversion functions. Osmium can create WKT, WKB, OGR, GEOS and GeoJSON geometries for easy conversion into many GIS formats and it can assemble multipolygons from ways and relations.
This package contains the OSMCoastline utilities.
There are three methods to install osmcoastline 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 osmcoastline Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install osmcoastline using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install osmcoastline
Install osmcoastline Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install osmcoastline using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install osmcoastline
Install osmcoastline 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 osmcoastline using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install osmcoastline
How To Uninstall osmcoastline on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the osmcoastline package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove osmcoastline
Uninstall osmcoastline And Its Dependencies
To uninstall osmcoastline and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove osmcoastline
Remove osmcoastline Configurations and Data
To remove osmcoastline configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge osmcoastline
Remove osmcoastline configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove osmcoastline configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge osmcoastline
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install osmcoastline package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
