How To Install geoclue-geonames on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue-geonames on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is geoclue-geonames
geoclue-geonames is:
GeoClue provides applications access to various geographical information sources using a D-Bus API or a C library.
This package provides a geocoder backend for GeoClue. The location information comes from www.geonames.org.
There are three methods to install geoclue-geonames on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install geoclue-geonames Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install geoclue-geonames using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install geoclue-geonames
Install geoclue-geonames Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install geoclue-geonames using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install geoclue-geonames
Install geoclue-geonames 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 geoclue-geonames using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install geoclue-geonames
How To Uninstall geoclue-geonames on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the geoclue-geonames package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove geoclue-geonames
Uninstall geoclue-geonames And Its Dependencies
To uninstall geoclue-geonames and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove geoclue-geonames
Remove geoclue-geonames Configurations and Data
To remove geoclue-geonames configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge geoclue-geonames
Remove geoclue-geonames configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove geoclue-geonames configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge geoclue-geonames
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue-geonames package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
