How To Install iio-sensor-proxy on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install iio-sensor-proxy on Ubuntu 20.04. iio-sensor-proxy is IIO sensors to D-Bus proxy IIO sensors to D-Bus proxy

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iio-sensor-proxy on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is iio-sensor-proxy

iio-sensor-proxy is:

Industrial I/O subsystem is intended to provide support for devices that in some sense are analog to digital or digital to analog convertors

Devices that fall into this category are:

  • ADCs
  • Accelerometers
  • Gyros
  • IMUs
  • Capacitance to Digital Converters (CDCs)
  • Pressure Sensors
  • Color, Light and Proximity Sensors
  • Temperature Sensors
  • Magnetometers
  • DACs
  • DDS (Direct Digital Synthesis)
  • PLLs (Phase Locked Loops)
  • Variable/Programmable Gain Amplifiers (VGA, PGA)

Many ultrabooks ship with some of these devices. iio-sensor-proxy is intended to serve as a proxy, providing access to these devices through a D-Bus interface Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop

Package: iio-sensor-proxy Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.8-1 Priority: optional Section: utils Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Ritesh Raj Sarraf [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 163 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.39.90), libgudev-1.0-0 (>= 146) Suggests: systemd Filename: pool/main/i/iio-sensor-proxy/iio-sensor-proxy_2.8-1_amd64.deb Size: 35524 MD5sum: ff75379453e10f6c6a71751989748c14 SHA1: 6e46252dbef7f035883c7dd459c378aeda29d7ba SHA256: 3e134e7e8072b08d77133020933a6f9f4be01c30883e66a8273ca1dc6ed8c2dc Homepage: https://github.com/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy Description-en: IIO sensors to D-Bus proxy Industrial I/O subsystem is intended to provide support for devices that in some sense are analog to digital or digital to analog convertors

Devices that fall into this category are:

  • ADCs
  • Accelerometers
  • Gyros
  • IMUs
  • Capacitance to Digital Converters (CDCs)
  • Pressure Sensors
  • Color, Light and Proximity Sensors
  • Temperature Sensors
  • Magnetometers
  • DACs
  • DDS (Direct Digital Synthesis)
  • PLLs (Phase Locked Loops)
  • Variable/Programmable Gain Amplifiers (VGA, PGA)

Many ultrabooks ship with some of these devices. iio-sensor-proxy is intended to serve as a proxy, providing access to these devices through a D-Bus interface Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop

There are three methods to install iio-sensor-proxy 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 iio-sensor-proxy Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install iio-sensor-proxy using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install iio-sensor-proxy

Install iio-sensor-proxy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install iio-sensor-proxy using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install iio-sensor-proxy

Install iio-sensor-proxy 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 iio-sensor-proxy using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install iio-sensor-proxy

How To Uninstall iio-sensor-proxy on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the iio-sensor-proxy package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove iio-sensor-proxy

Uninstall iio-sensor-proxy And Its Dependencies

To uninstall iio-sensor-proxy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove iio-sensor-proxy

Remove iio-sensor-proxy Configurations and Data

To remove iio-sensor-proxy configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge iio-sensor-proxy

Remove iio-sensor-proxy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove iio-sensor-proxy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iio-sensor-proxy

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iio-sensor-proxy package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.