How To Install geoclue-plazes on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue-plazes on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is geoclue-plazes
geoclue-plazes 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 plazes.com router/access point location database (http://plazes.com).
There are three methods to install geoclue-plazes 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-plazes 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-plazes using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install geoclue-plazes
Install geoclue-plazes Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install geoclue-plazes using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install geoclue-plazes
Install geoclue-plazes 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-plazes using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install geoclue-plazes
How To Uninstall geoclue-plazes on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the geoclue-plazes package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove geoclue-plazes
Uninstall geoclue-plazes And Its Dependencies
To uninstall geoclue-plazes and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove geoclue-plazes
Remove geoclue-plazes Configurations and Data
To remove geoclue-plazes configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge geoclue-plazes
Remove geoclue-plazes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove geoclue-plazes configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge geoclue-plazes
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue-plazes package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
