How To Install spatialite-gui 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 spatialite-gui on Ubuntu.

What is spatialite-gui

spatialite-gui is:

spatialite-gui is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for SpatiaLite.

SpatiaLite is a SQLite extension that enables support of 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.

There are three methods to install spatialite-gui 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 spatialite-gui Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install spatialite-gui

Install spatialite-gui Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install spatialite-gui

Install spatialite-gui 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 spatialite-gui using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install spatialite-gui

How To Uninstall spatialite-gui on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the spatialite-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove spatialite-gui

Uninstall spatialite-gui And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove spatialite-gui

Remove spatialite-gui Configurations and Data

To remove spatialite-gui configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge spatialite-gui

Remove spatialite-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spatialite-gui

Dependencies

spatialite-gui have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libcurl3-gnutls
• libfreexl1
• libgcc-s1
• libgeos-c1v5
• libpq5
• libproj22
• librasterlite2-1
• libspatialite7
• libsqlite3-0
• libstdc++6
• libvirtualpg0
• libwxbase3.0-0v5
• libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5
• zlib1g

References

• spatialite-gui website

Summary

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