How To Install shprewind on Fedora 34
In this tutorial, we will discuss How To Install shprewind on Fedora 34
using dnf
and yum
package managers.
Also, we will demonstrate how to uninstall and update
shprewind
as well.
One-liner Install Command
If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:
sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install shapelib-tools
or if you use dnf
:
sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install shapelib-tools
But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.
What is shprewind
and How to Install It?
Short description: Library for reading and writing ESRI Shapefiles - tools
First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 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 shprewind on Fedora 34. 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 shprewind on Fedora 34 using dnf
First, update dnf packages database with dnf
by running the next command:
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating database,
You can install shprewind using dnf
by running the
following command:
sudo dnf -y install shapelib-tools
Install shprewind on Fedora 34 using yum
Because shprewind is available in Fedora 34’s default
repositories,
it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum
packaging
system.
To begin, update local packages database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
Now can install shprewind package on your server/computer by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install shapelib-tools
How to upgrade (update) a single package shprewind using yum?
To update all the packages available on the system:
yum update
If you want to update a specific package like shprewind in this example you should use the following command:
yum update shapelib-tools
To downgrade a package to an earlier version:
yum downgrade shapelib-tools
How to Upgrade shprewind on Fedora 34 with dnf?
When you run the dnf update
, all system packages with available updates are updated.
However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as
the argument to the dnf update command.
dnf update shapelib-tools
How To remove shprewind from Fedora 34
To uninstall only the shprewind
package you can execute
the
following command:
sudo dnf remove shapelib-tools
Extra info and code examples
The Shapefile format is a working and interchange format promoted by ESRI for simple vector data with attributes. It is apparently the only file format that can be edited in ARCView 2/3, and can also be exported and imported in ArcGis. This package contains a useful set of tools to manage shapefiles.
- Maintainer: Debian GIS Project
- Sources url: http://shapelib.maptools.org/
- Section/Category: graphics
Conclusion
You now have a full guide on how to install shprewind
using dnf
and yum
package managers.
Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall
the shprewind from Fedora 34.