How To Install gpsmanshp on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install gpsmanshp on Ubuntu 22.04. gpsmanshp is Tcl interface to shapelib

Introduction

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

What is gpsmanshp

gpsmanshp is:

A Tcl package that provides the means of creating and reading files in the ESRI Shapefile for keeping 2 or 3 dimensional points and polylines.

It was developed for use in GPSMan, a manager of GPS receiver data and is based on the shapelib module. Along with this package, gpstr2shp.c was also developed which translates GPStrans data files into Shapefile ones.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gpsmanshp

Install gpsmanshp Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gpsmanshp

Install gpsmanshp 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 gpsmanshp using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gpsmanshp

How To Uninstall gpsmanshp on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove gpsmanshp

Uninstall gpsmanshp And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gpsmanshp

Remove gpsmanshp Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gpsmanshp

Remove gpsmanshp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gpsmanshp

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Summary

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