How To Install geoclue2 on Fedora 34

geoclue2 is Geolocation service Geolocation service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue2 on Fedora 34.

What is geoclue2

Geoclue is a D-Bus service that provides location information. The primary goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware applications as simple as possible, while the secondary goal is to ensure that no application can access location information without explicit permission from user. geoclue2 2.5.7 2.fc34 x86_64 118 k geoclue2-2.5.7-2.fc34.src.rpm fedora Geolocation service http GPLv2+ Geoclue is a D-Bus service that provides location information. The primary goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware applications as simple as possible, while the secondary goal is to ensure that no application can access location information without explicit permission from user.

We can use yum or dnf to install geoclue2 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geoclue2.

Install geoclue2 on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install geoclue2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install geoclue2

Install geoclue2 on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install geoclue2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install geoclue2

How To Uninstall geoclue2 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the geoclue2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove geoclue2

geoclue2 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.Agent.conf
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.conf
/etc/geoclue
/etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf
/etc/xdg/autostart/geoclue-demo-agent.desktop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/996e121ec1c8df42e4b6bcc744ff41e951a4b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/4230e2386c1e6403287055e7b33c0ce845bde1
/usr/lib/systemd/system/geoclue.service
/usr/libexec/geoclue
/usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0
/usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos
/usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent
/usr/share/applications/geoclue-demo-agent.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.service
/usr/share/doc/geoclue2
/usr/share/doc/geoclue2/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/geoclue2
/usr/share/licenses/geoclue2/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/geoclue.5.gz
/var/lib/geoclue
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.Agent.conf
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.conf
/etc/geoclue
/etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf
/etc/xdg/autostart/geoclue-demo-agent.desktop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d/4f392c8261f50ad74f8b51ae8480068af7ee7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/0f90c50b14e54fc395691c1d640b8f6e75d39e
/usr/lib/systemd/system/geoclue.service
/usr/libexec/geoclue
/usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0
/usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos
/usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent
/usr/share/applications/geoclue-demo-agent.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.service
/usr/share/doc/geoclue2
/usr/share/doc/geoclue2/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/geoclue2
/usr/share/licenses/geoclue2/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/geoclue.5.gz
/var/lib/geoclue

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue2 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.