How To Install gpsd on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpsd on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gpsd
gpsd is:
The gpsd service daemon can monitor one or more GPS devices connected to a host computer, making all data on the location and movements of the sensors available to be queried on TCP port 2947.
With gpsd, multiple GPS client applications can share access to devices without contention or loss of data. Also, gpsd responds to queries with a format that is substantially easier to parse than the different standards emitted by GPS devices.
Package: gpsd Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.20-8 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: misc Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 756 Depends: netbase | systemd-sysv, lsb-base (>= 3.2-13), adduser (>= 3.34), libbluetooth3 (>= 4.91), libc6 (>= 2.29), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.8), libgps26 (= 3.20-8) Recommends: udev, python3 Suggests: gpsd-clients, dbus, apparmor Conflicts: fso-gpsd Breaks: udev (« 136-1) Filename: pool/main/g/gpsd/gpsd_3.20-8_amd64.deb Size: 270200 MD5sum: 728681584a42a0158f7d59610d876114 SHA1: 47c31e0f581f04c952a46fd8072e7039e541d103 SHA256: f71fc8b4001c0280528aab6f701b917198c07a563379ff84de0867bd83258baa Homepage: http://www.catb.org/gpsd/ Description-en: Global Positioning System - daemon The gpsd service daemon can monitor one or more GPS devices connected to a host computer, making all data on the location and movements of the sensors available to be queried on TCP port 2947.
With gpsd, multiple GPS client applications can share access to devices without contention or loss of data. Also, gpsd responds to queries with a format that is substantially easier to parse than the different standards emitted by GPS devices.
There are three methods to install gpsd 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 gpsd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gpsd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gpsd
Install gpsd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gpsd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gpsd
Install gpsd 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 gpsd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gpsd
How To Uninstall gpsd on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gpsd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gpsd
Uninstall gpsd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gpsd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gpsd
Remove gpsd Configurations and Data
To remove gpsd configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gpsd
Remove gpsd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gpsd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gpsd
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpsd package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
