How To Install renderd 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 renderd on Ubuntu.

What is `renderd`

renderd is:

mod_tile is a system to serve raster tiles for example to use within a slippy map. It provides a dynamic combination of efficient caching and on the fly rendering. Due to its dynamic rendering, only a small fraction of overall tiles need to be kept on disk, reducing the resources required. At the same time, its caching strategy allows for a high performance serving and can support several thousand requests per second.

This package contains the renderd daemon that creates “metatiles” for map tile requests issued by mod_tile using the mapnik library.

There are three methods to install renderd 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 renderd Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install renderd

Install renderd Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install renderd using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install renderd

Install renderd 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 renderd using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install renderd

How To Uninstall renderd on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the renderd package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove renderd

Uninstall renderd And Its Dependencies

To uninstall renderd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove renderd

Remove renderd Configurations and Data

To remove renderd configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge renderd

Remove renderd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove renderd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge renderd

Dependencies

renderd have the following dependencies:

References

renderd website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install renderd package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.