How To Install geoclue2 on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue2 on Rocky Linux 8.
What is geoclue2
Geoclue is a D-Bus service that provides location information. The primary goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware applications as simple as possible, while the secondary goal is to ensure that no application can access location information without explicit permission from user.
We can use yum or dnf to install geoclue2 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geoclue2.
Install geoclue2 on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install geoclue2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install geoclue2
Install geoclue2 on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install geoclue2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install geoclue2
How To Uninstall geoclue2 on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the geoclue2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove geoclue2
geoclue2 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.Agent.conf
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.conf
/etc/geoclue
/etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf
/etc/xdg/autostart/geoclue-demo-agent.desktop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/42a6332bbf8091a2b0e816c1df6248d5e3efd8
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/2e09deb9a778c98cf31afb3f74b57e76fd7da5
/usr/lib/systemd/system/geoclue.service
/usr/libexec/geoclue
/usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0
/usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos
/usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent
/usr/share/applications/geoclue-demo-agent.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.service
/usr/share/doc/geoclue2
/usr/share/doc/geoclue2/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/geoclue2
/usr/share/licenses/geoclue2/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/geoclue.5.gz
/var/lib/geoclue
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.Agent.conf
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.conf
/etc/geoclue
/etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf
/etc/xdg/autostart/geoclue-demo-agent.desktop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/d535a63a31de300efa653c02e3855b8a88e60e
/usr/lib/.build-id/76
/usr/lib/.build-id/76/d3e44f7b3f6b172878c6e2e5d0a3e2f0f6f8b7
/usr/lib/systemd/system/geoclue.service
/usr/libexec/geoclue
/usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0
/usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos
/usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent
/usr/share/applications/geoclue-demo-agent.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.service
/usr/share/doc/geoclue2
/usr/share/doc/geoclue2/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/geoclue2
/usr/share/licenses/geoclue2/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/geoclue.5.gz
/var/lib/geoclue
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoclue2 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.