How To Install geoclue on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue on CentOS 7.
What is geoclue
Geoclue is a modular geoinformation service built on top of the D-Bus messaging system. The goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware applications as simple as possible. Geoclue is a modular geoinformation service built on top of the D-Bus messaging system. The goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware applications as simple as possible.
We can use yum or dnf to install geoclue on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geoclue.
Install geoclue on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install geoclue using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install geoclue
Install geoclue on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install geoclue using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install geoclue
How To Uninstall geoclue on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the geoclue package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove geoclue
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
