How to Install and Uninstall gdal-data Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "gdal-data" package

Learn how to install gdal-data on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                gdal-data
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "gdal-data" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall gdal-data on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                gdal-data
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the gdal-data package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: gdal-data
Architecture: all
Version: 3.1.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/science
Source: gdal
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian GIS Project
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1922
Breaks: libgdal20 (<< 2.5.0~)
Filename: pool/universe/g/gdal/gdal-data_3.1.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2_all.deb
Size: 188036
MD5sum: c54b8d5419c3c9d85a6669bf5857e179
SHA1: 6267d3c219d396ded598b9e2c42ce551e329c7d9
SHA256: d22ae7b88e47b10cb8a9c701cc164c952d045f20440ea69e12118d86fed6e8e1
SHA512: f1df7b3675fe3aa51d1a26ddae842f2acc0cb83188ec0653c2cb3d6627eb10f1baa82a65284a00903b3641dc7689c3d5cc8d2a5762194553ea52b849cd21ef90
Homepage: http://www.gdal.org/
Description-en: Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Data files
GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats.
As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the
calling application for all supported formats. The related OGR
library (which lives within the GDAL source tree) provides
a similar capability for simple features vector data.
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GDAL supports 40+ popular data formats, including commonly used
ones (GeoTIFF, JPEG, PNG and more) as well as the ones used in
GIS and remote sensing software packages (ERDAS Imagine,
ESRI Arc/Info, ENVI, PCI Geomatics). Also supported many remote
sensing and scientific data distribution formats such as HDF,
EOS FAST, NOAA L1B, NetCDF, FITS.
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OGR library supports popular vector formats like ESRI Shapefile,
TIGER data, S57, MapInfo File, DGN, GML and more.
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This package contains the GDAL data files.
Description-md5: 81ef266f0ab038b3120be125843fe901
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