How to Install and Uninstall libgeotiff-epsg Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: November 26,2024

1. Install "libgeotiff-epsg" package

This is a short guide on how to install libgeotiff-epsg on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install libgeotiff-epsg

2. Uninstall "libgeotiff-epsg" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall libgeotiff-epsg on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):

$ sudo apt remove libgeotiff-epsg $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the libgeotiff-epsg package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: libgeotiff-epsg
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/science
Installed-Size: 6006
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian GIS Project
Architecture: all
Version: 1.4.1-2
Depends: libgeotiff2
Filename: pool/multiverse/libg/libgeotiff-epsg/libgeotiff-epsg_1.4.1-2_all.deb
Size: 615294
MD5sum: 18e25e0f88d711b6644e3dc91576a769
SHA1: 2b39fd8c13a915a406a695c3a59cc5d0baa9bb04
SHA256: d6d013cc0f9352d42ce302997ec917ac83662d879267de622a52ef1cd0bf6daf
Description-en: GeoTIFF library -- EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset
This C library supports TIFF 6.0 based interchange format for
georeferenced raster imagery. The GeoTIFF standard has been developed
for reading, and writing geographic meta-information tags on top of
TIFF raster.
.
This package contains EPSG Geodetic Paramenters data files which can be
used with standard projections. These data are useful to better dump
geo-contents of many GeoTIFF files.
Description-md5: 2cf84675d1ff27690d64b54ee403b4fc
Homepage: http://geotiff.osgeo.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

5. The same packages on other Linux Distributions