How To Install geoclue2-demos on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue2-demos on CentOS 8.
What is geoclue2-demos
The geoclue2-demos package contains demo applications that use geoclue2.
We can use yum or dnf to install geoclue2-demos on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geoclue2-demos.
Install geoclue2-demos on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install geoclue2-demos using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install geoclue2-demos
Install geoclue2-demos on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install geoclue2-demos using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install geoclue2-demos
How To Uninstall geoclue2-demos on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the geoclue2-demos package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove geoclue2-demos
geoclue2-demos Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/489a6201384995d48382f9ef6a093eed52f2a5
/usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/where-am-i
/usr/share/applications/geoclue-where-am-i.desktop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue2-demos on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.