Complete Guide: Installing gypsy-daemon on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2024

1. Install "gypsy-daemon" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install gypsy-daemon on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "gypsy-daemon" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall gypsy-daemon on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: gypsy-daemon
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 109
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Linaro User Platforms
Architecture: amd64
Source: gypsy
Version: 0.8-0ubuntu7
Depends: libbluetooth3 (>= 4.91), libc6 (>= 2.4), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.88), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3)
Filename: pool/universe/g/gypsy/gypsy-daemon_0.8-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb
Size: 21788
MD5sum: d511184b957803a68035966f41881d1b
SHA1: 7024f26f0163301ad2e7d99f077f3fed8a33a33e
SHA256: 9bac5b1e97a8c029218ee30b32b41db18676f4a9559756fd300825fe93c8b61a
Description-en: A GPS Multiplexing Daemon
Gypsy is a GPS multiplexing daemon which allows multiple clients to access GPS
data from multiple GPS sources concurrently.
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Without some sort of multiplexing system, a GPS device can only safely be
accessed by one client. In a server situation this may not cause any problems,
but on modern desktop which could potentially have multiple location aware
devices, this could be an issue.
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Gypsy hides the tricky details of parsing NMEA from the client applications,
passing the data as simple values for the clients to use.
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Gypsy uses D-Bus to notify clients about location changes, sitting on the
system bus, issuing signals as the GPS data changes. This design allows clients
to only be notified about the changes they care about and ignore the rest.
Gypsy has fine grained signals, so a client only interested in position changes
will not be woken up for any other changes like, for example, satellite detail
changes.
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Gypsy is designed to be usable on all manner of systems, from low powered
devices (such as Nokia N810 and Openmoko Neo) to regular high powered desktop
systems. As the signals it emits are fine grained applications are woken up
only when they absolutely need to be, keeping power requirements to a minimum.
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Gypsy was designed to fix the numerous design flaws found in GPSD.
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Included with Gypsy is libgypsy which is a GObject based C wrapper for the
D-Bus API making writing clients very simple, although any language with D-Bus
bindings can be used to write a Gypsy client (See simple-gps-python.py in the
Gypsy sources for an example written in Python).
Description-md5: 4160d02f5ec4f2b8d1b894d892cb9f55
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu