How To Install pyosmium on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install pyosmium on Ubuntu 22.04. pyosmium is Osmium library bindings for Python - utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pyosmium on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is pyosmium

pyosmium is:

The PyOsmium module allows you to access some of the features of the Osmium library from Python code.

PyOsmium has extensive support for all types of OSM entities: nodes, ways, relations, and changesets. It allows reading from OSM files in XML and PBF formats, including change files and full history files. Its easy to use handler interface allows you to quickly write data filtering and conversion functions.

This package contains the PyOsmium utilities.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pyosmium

Install pyosmium Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pyosmium

Install pyosmium 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 pyosmium using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pyosmium

How To Uninstall pyosmium on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove pyosmium

Uninstall pyosmium And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pyosmium and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pyosmium

Remove pyosmium Configurations and Data

To remove pyosmium configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pyosmium

Remove pyosmium configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pyosmium

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pyosmium package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.