How to Install and Uninstall gpsbabel Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "gpsbabel" package

This guide let you learn how to install gpsbabel on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                gpsbabel
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "gpsbabel" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall gpsbabel on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the gpsbabel package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: gpsbabel
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 1833
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.5.2-1ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libusb-0.1-4 (>= 2:0.1.12), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0.2)
Recommends: gpsbabel-doc
Filename: pool/universe/g/gpsbabel/gpsbabel_1.5.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 677012
MD5sum: bebce5a46265f9f2d647e436607fc91b
SHA1: 11a94226741029bb7839afb08d659f564c4fc88e
SHA256: 3653ce437b62ff32982866a2c0f83391275293ecf2e9c67673303201b35e9c63
Description-en: GPS file conversion plus transfer to/from GPS units
GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes from one format to
another, whether that format is a common mapping format like Delorme,
Streets and Trips, or even a serial upload or download to a GPS unit
such as those from Garmin and Magellan.
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GPSBabel supports dozens of data formats and will be useful for tasks
such as geocaching, mapping, and converting from one GPS unit to another.
Among the interesting formats it supports are several GPS devices via
a serial link, various PDA-based mapping programs, and various
Geocaching data formats.
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Among others GPSBabel supports the following formats:
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Cetus, CoPilot Flight Planner, CSV, Custom CSV, Delorme Street Atlas,
Delorme Street Atlas 2004 Plus, Delorms GPS Log, Delorme routes,
DNA, EasyGPS Binary, Fugawi, Garmin serial, Geocaching.com loc,
GeocachingDB, Geoniche, GPilotS, GPSDrive, GPSman, GPSPilot,
gpsutil, GPX, Holux, IGC, Magellan serial, Magellan SD,
Magellan Navigator Companion, Mapopolis.Com Mapconverter, Mapsend,
Mapsource, Maptech, Microsoft Streets and Trips, Navicache,
Netstumbler, NIMA/GNIS Geographic Names, NMEA sentences, OziExplorer,
PalmDoc, PCX5, PocketStreets 2002 Pushpin, PSITrex, Quovadis,
Tab-separated data, Tiger, TopoMapPro, Topo by National Geographic,
xcsv, xmap, xmapwpt.
Description-md5: f94ca0e22606ceaf0445fd81084ec6af
Homepage: http://www.gpsbabel.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu