How to Install and Uninstall postgresql-13-pointcloud Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "postgresql-13-pointcloud" package

This tutorial shows how to install postgresql-13-pointcloud on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                postgresql-13-pointcloud
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "postgresql-13-pointcloud" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall postgresql-13-pointcloud on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the postgresql-13-pointcloud package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: postgresql-13-pointcloud
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.2.1-7
Priority: optional
Section: universe/database
Source: pgpointcloud
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 370
Depends: postgresql-13, libc6 (>= 2.14), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Filename: pool/universe/p/pgpointcloud/postgresql-13-pointcloud_1.2.1-7_amd64.deb
Size: 112488
MD5sum: 4933da86e4069ecb3ed08dc93a8e5cf1
SHA1: bcda72525385fa0518f4040bad5734873bb066e1
SHA256: 9c45eb23612886a8f4ad05fabf36f906d7034444e288458d90cf0aaa4ca251c8
SHA512: 80e037879bf95187d9a3843204830a27dd3ce94be45729e84a776ea0ed0d8caefef05588edab013376d703bc9ec1d1aec13638d9054824633eb55abe9aa4f964
Homepage: https://github.com/pgpointcloud/pointcloud
Description-en: PostgreSQL extension for storing point cloud (LIDAR) data
LIDAR sensors quickly produce millions of points with large numbers of
variables measured on each point. The challenge for a point cloud database
extension is efficiently storing this data while allowing high fidelity access
to the many variables stored.
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Much of the complexity in handling LIDAR comes from the need to deal with
multiple variables per point. The variables captured by LIDAR sensors varies
by sensor and capture process. Some data sets might contain only X/Y/Z values.
Others will contain dozens of variables: X, Y, Z; intensity and return number;
red, green, and blue values; return times; and many more. There is no
consistency in how variables are stored: intensity might be stored in a 4-byte
integer, or in a single byte; X/Y/Z might be doubles, or they might be scaled
4-byte integers.
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PostgreSQL Pointcloud deals with all this variability by using a "schema
document" to describe the contents of any particular LIDAR point. Each point
contains a number of dimensions, and each dimension can be of any data type,
with scaling and/or offsets applied to move between the actual value and the
value stored in the database. The schema document format used by PostgreSQL
Pointcloud is the same one used by the PDAL library.
Description-md5: 20845f89fe7791d32eb14519483ec92e