How To Install spatialite on CentOS 8

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 spatialite-bin

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install spatialite-bin

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is spatialite and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 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 spatialite on CentOS 8. 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 spatialite on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install spatialite using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spatialite-bin

Install spatialite on CentOS 8 using yum

Because spatialite is available in CentOS 8’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 spatialite package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spatialite-bin

How to upgrade (update) a single package spatialite using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like spatialite in this example you should use the following command:

yum update spatialite-bin

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade spatialite-bin

How to Upgrade spatialite on CentOS 8 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 spatialite-bin

How To remove spatialite from CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove spatialite-bin

Extra info and code examples

The SpatiaLite extension enables SQLite to support spatial (geometry) data in a way conformant to OpenGis specifications, with both WKT and WKB formats. Spatialite also includes Virtualshape and Virtualtext to enable accessing shapefiles and csv/text files as virtual tables. This package contains tools useful to manage SQLite databases.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install spatialite using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the spatialite from CentOS 8.

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