How To Install gpsd on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpsd on CentOS 8.
What is gpsd
gpsd is a service daemon that mediates access to a GPS sensor connected to the host computer by serial or USB interface, making its data on the location/course/velocity of the sensor available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer. With gpsd, multiple GPS client applications (such as navigational and war-driving software) can share access to a GPS without contention or loss of data. Also, gpsd responds to queries with a format that is substantially easier to parse than NMEA 0183.
We can use yum or dnf to install gpsd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gpsd.
Install gpsd 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 gpsd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gpsd
Install gpsd 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 gpsd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gpsd
How To Uninstall gpsd on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gpsd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gpsd
gpsd Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/sysconfig/gpsd
/usr/bin/gpsctl
/usr/bin/gpsmon
/usr/bin/ntpshmmon
/usr/bin/ppscheck
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/e43a406bb6e79ab8f041de1311b1ca93fcb80f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/5e0292dc925d4099b98323863b8f3a8acb98fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/b1cbceb4b1da23e2182f3b04cb5db5b77b3b32
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/c0027da1f5ce329f8d529dd205ce4c5b2e0519
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/0b5718b31c73e2980f1f7b01dae72f56674433
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/e0125a6449d878058c98a8950cb0ea2035fe79
/usr/lib/systemd/system/gpsd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/gpsd.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-gpsd.rules
/usr/sbin/gpsd
/usr/sbin/gpsdctl
/usr/sbin/gpsinit
/usr/share/doc/gpsd
/usr/share/doc/gpsd/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gpsd/README
/usr/share/man/man1/gpsctl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gpsmon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ntpshmmon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/gpsd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/gpsdctl.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/gpsinit.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ppscheck.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gpsd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.