How To Install gdalbuildvrt on Ubuntu 22.04

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install gdal-bin

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is gdalbuildvrt and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Ubuntu 22.04. This guide was written specifically with a server running Ubuntu 22.04 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install gdalbuildvrt on Ubuntu 22.04. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install gdalbuildvrt using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt -y install gdal-bin

Install gdalbuildvrt using apt

Because gdalbuildvrt is available in Ubuntu 22.04’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install gdalbuildvrt using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gdal-bin

Install gdalbuildvrt 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 22.04. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install gdalbuildvrt by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gdal-bin

How to upgrade (update) a single package gdalbuildvrt using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the gdalbuildvrt, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install gdal-bin

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install gdal-bin

How To Uninstall gdalbuildvrt from Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the gdalbuildvrt package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gdal-bin

Uninstall gdalbuildvrt and all its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gdal-bin

Remove gdalbuildvrt with all configurations and data

To remove gdalbuildvrt configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gdal-bin

Remove gdalbuildvrt completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to gdalbuildvrt package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gdal-bin

Extra info and code examples

GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. The related OGR library (which lives within the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple features vector data. GDAL supports 40+ popular data formats, including commonly used ones (GeoTIFF, JPEG, PNG and more) as well as the ones used in GIS and remote sensing software packages (ERDAS Imagine, ESRI Arc/Info, ENVI, PCI Geomatics). Also supported many remote sensing and scientific data distribution formats such as HDF, EOS FAST, NOAA L1B, NetCDF, FITS. OGR library supports popular vector formats like ESRI Shapefile, TIGER data, S57, MapInfo File, DGN, GML and more. This package contains utility programs, based on GDAL/OGR library, namely gdal_translate, gdalinfo, gdaladdo, gdalwarp, ogr2ogr, ogrinfo, ogrtindex.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install gdalbuildvrt using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the gdalbuildvrt from Ubuntu 22.04.

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