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geoclue


Information about the package, geoclue, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The geoclue package is designed for, A modular geoinformation service.


Package Name:

geoclue

Summary:

A modular geoinformation service

Description:

Geoclue is a modular geoinformation service built on top of the D-Bus messaging system. The goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware applications as simple as possible.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.11.1.1

Release:

0.13.20091026git73b6729.el6

Size:

70 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2



Handy Yum Commands for geoclue


Control the geoclue package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install geoclue

This command will install geoclue on the server.

yum remove geoclue

This command will un-install geoclue on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove geoclue, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove geoclue

This command will un-install geoclue on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove geoclue when using the -y flag.

yum update geoclue

This command will update geoclue to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove geoclue, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update geoclue

This command will update geoclue to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove geoclue when using the -y flag.

yum info geoclue

This command will show you core information about the geoclue package.

yum deplist geoclue

This command will show you the dependencies for geoclue. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update geoclue

This command will check if there is an update waiting on geoclue. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.