How to Install and Uninstall geoclue-geonames Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "geoclue-geonames" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install geoclue-geonames on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                geoclue-geonames
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "geoclue-geonames" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall geoclue-geonames on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                geoclue-geonames
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the geoclue-geonames package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: geoclue-geonames
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 65
Maintainer: Ubuntu Desktop Team
Original-Maintainer: Laurent Bigonville
Architecture: amd64
Source: geoclue
Version: 0.12.99-4ubuntu1
Provides: geoclue-provider
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgeoclue0 (>= 0.12.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), geoclue (= 0.12.99-4ubuntu1)
Filename: pool/universe/g/geoclue/geoclue-geonames_0.12.99-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 6600
MD5sum: c1559c8f519e01182d4be1c64141a9b2
SHA1: dd9bdb386b7de753683beda06d8925ed2d310cc0
SHA256: 2eb85496f291ede40b3145e276ac789a089e3328cfa81c35fdc4f57c6b67d293
Description-en: Geocoder provider for GeoClue (geonames)
GeoClue provides applications access to various geographical information
sources using a D-Bus API or a C library.
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This package provides a geocoder backend for GeoClue. The
location information comes from www.geonames.org.
Description-md5: 970f751dea536a6c1ea618f83bf0396f
Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu