How To Install geoclue-examples on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue-examples on Ubuntu 18.04. geoclue-examples is GeoClue example clients

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue-examples on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is geoclue-examples

geoclue-examples is:

GeoClue provides applications access to various geographical information sources using a D-Bus API or a C library.

This package provides examples of clients using different backends through the C library.

There are three methods to install geoclue-examples on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install geoclue-examples Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install geoclue-examples using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install geoclue-examples

Install geoclue-examples Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install geoclue-examples using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install geoclue-examples

Install geoclue-examples 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 geoclue-examples using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install geoclue-examples

How To Uninstall geoclue-examples on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the geoclue-examples package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove geoclue-examples

Uninstall geoclue-examples And Its Dependencies

To uninstall geoclue-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove geoclue-examples

Remove geoclue-examples Configurations and Data

To remove geoclue-examples configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge geoclue-examples

Remove geoclue-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove geoclue-examples configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge geoclue-examples

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue-examples package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.