Debian GIS Blend

Using the metapackages

Metapackages are used by the blend as a convinient way of collecting together related software packages. Each metapackage when installed will cause the package management system to install the packages related to the task.

The following metapackages are currently maintained by the blend:

Task nameMetapackageDescriptionCatalogue
gis-data gis-data This task contains packages providing data that can be used by different GIS applications. Link
gis-devel gis-devel This task sets up your system for GIS development. Link
gis-gps gis-gps Set of Debian packages which are dealing with GPS devices and data. Link
gis-osm gis-osm Set of Debian packages which are dealing with OpenStreetMap data. Link
gis-remotesensing gis-remotesensing Debian packages which are dealing with Remote Sensing (for instance Synthetic Aperture Radar -- SAR) processing (interferometry, polarimetry, data visualization, etc) and earth observation. Link
gis-statistics gis-statistics Set of Debian packages which are useful for doing statistics with geographical data. Link
gis-web gis-web Debian packages which are dealing with geographical information to be presented for the web on so called map tile servers. These are pretty useful when trying to setup an OpenStreetMap tile server but not restricted to OpenStreetMap data only. Link
gis-workstation gis-workstation This task sets up your system to be a GIS workstation to process geographical information and make maps. Link

To install any of the task metapackages, use your favourite package management tool as you would with any other Debian package. For apt-get:

apt-get install gis-<task>

If you want to install the entire blend:

apt-get install gis-data gis-devel gis-gps gis-osm gis-remotesensing gis-statistics gis-web gis-workstation