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