How To Install geoclue-hostip on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue-hostip on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is geoclue-hostip
geoclue-hostip is:
GeoClue provides applications access to various geographical information sources using a D-Bus API or a C library.
This package provides a positioning backend for GeoClue. It uses the IP geolocation database (http://hostip.info).
There are three methods to install geoclue-hostip 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-hostip 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-hostip using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install geoclue-hostip
Install geoclue-hostip Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install geoclue-hostip using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install geoclue-hostip
Install geoclue-hostip 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-hostip using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install geoclue-hostip
How To Uninstall geoclue-hostip on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the geoclue-hostip package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove geoclue-hostip
Uninstall geoclue-hostip And Its Dependencies
To uninstall geoclue-hostip and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove geoclue-hostip
Remove geoclue-hostip Configurations and Data
To remove geoclue-hostip configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge geoclue-hostip
Remove geoclue-hostip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove geoclue-hostip configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge geoclue-hostip
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue-hostip package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
