How to Install and Uninstall gpsd Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "gpsd" package

This tutorial shows how to install gpsd on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                gpsd
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "gpsd" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall gpsd on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                gpsd
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the gpsd package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: gpsd
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.22-4
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1306
Depends: netbase | systemd-sysv, lsb-base (>= 3.2-13), adduser (>= 3.34), libbluetooth3 (>= 4.91), libc6 (>= 2.33), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.8), libgps28 (= 3.22-4), python3:any, python3
Recommends: udev, gpsd-tools
Suggests: gpsd-clients, dbus, apparmor
Conflicts: fso-gpsd
Breaks: gpsd-clients (<< 3.20-9), gpsd-tools (<< 3.20-10), udev (<< 136-1)
Replaces: gpsd-clients (<< 3.20-9), gpsd-tools (<< 3.20-10)
Filename: pool/main/g/gpsd/gpsd_3.22-4_amd64.deb
Size: 387046
MD5sum: 59028e8a392314cbb294fd4f3390818e
SHA1: 598b2a4740193d5ff58598445e6d7ac31ecb70f3
SHA256: bef551c4c6600b05cb5701d2a6eb004dfce37d9d26dd3c1a04c5d9a7539788f9
SHA512: ceaf48d7564fc81725077205aa878992724e1e1367d704953b3d562a537b2660d88809e095ba619711e72d5c051585aaaffc74e3d95980ea2b3c72cb70647d44
Homepage: http://www.catb.org/gpsd/
Description-en: Global Positioning System - daemon
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.
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With gpsd, multiple GPS client applications can share access to devices
without contention or loss of data. Also, gpsd responds to queries with a
format that is substantially easier to parse than the different standards
emitted by GPS devices.
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This also includes common tools ubxtool and gpsctl for device configuration
of the local hardware as well as a ntpshmmon to check generated refclock data.
Description-md5: f4c594224d3953b094b99b3ab4e1fa72