How To Install foxtrotgps on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install foxtrotgps
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is foxtrotgps
foxtrotgps is:
foxtrotGPS is a map and GPS application. By default, it uses maps from OpenStreetMap. The available features include downloading and displaying tiled maps, recording GPS tracks, automatic map centering, storing points of interest, geocoding photos, setting waypoints, monitoring heartrate via Bluetooth, planning travel routes and finding travel routes using external services on the Internet based on OpenStreetMap.
There are three methods to install foxtrotgps
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install foxtrotgps Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install foxtrotgps
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install foxtrotgps
Install foxtrotgps Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install foxtrotgps
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install foxtrotgps
Install foxtrotgps Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install foxtrotgps
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install foxtrotgps
How To Uninstall foxtrotgps on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the foxtrotgps
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove foxtrotgps
Uninstall foxtrotgps And Its Dependencies
To uninstall foxtrotgps
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove foxtrotgps
Remove foxtrotgps Configurations and Data
To remove foxtrotgps
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge foxtrotgps
Remove foxtrotgps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove foxtrotgps
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge foxtrotgps
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install foxtrotgps
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.