How To Install mercantile on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mercantile on Ubuntu.
What is mercantile
mercantile is:
The mercantile module provides functions that respectively return the upper left corner and bounding longitudes and latitudes for XYZ tiles, spherical mercator x and y coordinates, tile containing a given point, and quadkey conversion functions for translating between quadkey and tile coordinates.
Also in mercantile are functions to traverse the tile stack. Named tuples are used to represent tiles, coordinates, and bounding boxes.
This package contains the mercantile utility.
There are three methods to install mercantile on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mercantile Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mercantile using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mercantile
Install mercantile Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mercantile using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mercantile
Install mercantile 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 mercantile using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mercantile
How To Uninstall mercantile on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the mercantile package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mercantile
Uninstall mercantile And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mercantile and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mercantile
Remove mercantile Configurations and Data
To remove mercantile configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mercantile
Remove mercantile configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mercantile configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mercantile
Dependencies
mercantile have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mercantile package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.