How To Install libgps-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgps-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libgps-dev
libgps-dev is:
The gpsd service daemon can monitor one or more GPS devices connected to a host computer, making all data on the location and movements of the sensors available to be queried on TCP port 2947.
This package contains the header and development files needed to build programs and packages using libgps.
Package: libgps-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.20-8 Priority: optional Section: libdevel Source: gpsd Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 420 Depends: libgps26 (= 3.20-8), pkg-config Filename: pool/main/g/gpsd/libgps-dev_3.20-8_amd64.deb Size: 103592 MD5sum: 279115585a7a63d797aae48a04cc02fb SHA1: 4880ca3b78b24ef421fe57bafe2fadb173b81984 SHA256: ae4e6fade986d20f18f6608f06da651e837ef397bd6305cc15bb38cf5b96fb29 Homepage: http://www.catb.org/gpsd/ Description-en: Global Positioning System - development files The gpsd service daemon can monitor one or more GPS devices connected to a host computer, making all data on the location and movements of the sensors available to be queried on TCP port 2947.
This package contains the header and development files needed to build programs and packages using libgps.
There are three methods to install libgps-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libgps-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libgps-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgps-dev
Install libgps-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libgps-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgps-dev
Install libgps-dev 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 libgps-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgps-dev
How To Uninstall libgps-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libgps-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgps-dev
Uninstall libgps-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgps-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgps-dev
Remove libgps-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libgps-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgps-dev
Remove libgps-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgps-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgps-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgps-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.