How To Install osmcoastline on Debian 11

One-liner install command

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

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install osmcoastline

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

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

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Debian 11. This guide was written specifically with a server running Debian 11 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 osmcoastline on Debian 11. 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 osmcoastline 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 osmcoastline using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install osmcoastline

Install osmcoastline using apt

Because osmcoastline is available in Debian 11’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 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 Debian 11. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install osmcoastline

How to upgrade (update) a single package osmcoastline 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 osmcoastline, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install osmcoastline

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 osmcoastline

How To Uninstall osmcoastline from Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove osmcoastline

Uninstall osmcoastline and all its dependencies

To uninstall osmcoastline and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove osmcoastline

Remove osmcoastline with all configurations and data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge osmcoastline

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

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge osmcoastline

Extra info and code examples

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.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install osmcoastline using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the osmcoastline from Debian 11.

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