How To Install osmosis on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install osmosis on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is osmosis
osmosis is:
Osmosis consists of a series of components that can be chained together in order to perform operations on an OpenStreetMap database or OpenStreetMap XML or PBF files. Such operations include:
- Generate and load dumps from and to a database.
- Produce changesets comparing databases and files and applying them to other databases and files.
- Sort data contained in a file.
- Extract data contained in a bounding box or in a polygon.
There are three methods to install osmosis 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 osmosis Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install osmosis using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install osmosis
Install osmosis Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install osmosis using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install osmosis
Install osmosis 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 osmosis using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install osmosis
How To Uninstall osmosis on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the osmosis package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove osmosis
Uninstall osmosis And Its Dependencies
To uninstall osmosis and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove osmosis
Remove osmosis Configurations and Data
To remove osmosis configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge osmosis
Remove osmosis configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove osmosis configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge osmosis
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install osmosis package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
