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