How to Install and Uninstall gdal-data Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "gdal-data" package

This is a short guide on how to install gdal-data on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall gdal-data on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                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 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: gdal-data
Architecture: all
Version: 3.2.2+dfsg-3ubuntu2
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: 1992
Filename: pool/universe/g/gdal/gdal-data_3.2.2+dfsg-3ubuntu2_all.deb
Size: 214304
MD5sum: 515e68ba2d4532ea8127dd1f8b36f080
SHA1: de0ce75f02b6dc7d378b2eeab5a5402315aabe82
SHA256: a186e5b7eb057627d5cb8c585310d9779bcce4f8c878927ec3a5176b41be9c5a
SHA512: 5edcef5d402c5ae6f1af53fe8f49bf857edd867b164165ff2f2abccf302a68f89750560a32af78a9a01686145daf8152a85e3258849c30df45e40d88efd36c1c
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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