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Package: gpsd (2.33-4)

GPS (Global Positioning System) daemon

gpsd is a service daemon that monitors one or more GPSes attached to a host computer through serial or USB ports, making all data on the location/course/ velocity of the sensors available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer.

With gpsd, multiple GPS client applications (such as navigational and war- driving software) can share access to GPSes without contention or loss of data. Also, gpsd responds to queries with a format that is substantially easier to parse than the NMEA 0183 emitted by most GPSes.

The gpsd distribution includes a linkable C service library and a Python module that developers of gpsd-aware applications can use to encapsulate all communication with gpsd.

For a couple of clients, install the gpsd-clients package. 

 Homepage: http://gpsd.berlios.de/

Tags: Field: Geography, User Interface: Daemon, Networking: Server, Service, Role: Program

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  • dep: debconf (>= 0.5)
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    or debconf-2.0
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  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
  • dep: libdbus-1-3
    simple interprocess messaging system
  • dep: libgcc2 (>= 4.1.1-12)
    GCC support library
  • dep: libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-12)
    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
  • dep: lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
    Linux Standard Base 3.1 init script functionality
  • dep: netbase
    Basic TCP/IP networking system
  • rec: gpsd-clients
    clients for the GPS daemon
  • rec: python (>= 2.3)
    An interactive high-level object-oriented language (default version)
  • sug: udev
    /dev/ and hotplug management daemon

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