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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2011-09-25 12:50:24 -0400
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2011-09-25 12:50:24 -0400
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== Install the package(s) ==
+Up-to-date gpsd packages are generally available for Linux
+distributions including Debian and derivatives (including Ubuntu and
+Mint), Fedora and derivatives (including CentOS), openSUSE, PCLinuxOS,
+Mageia, and Slackware. In the embedded space, CeroWRT carries
+GPSD. The GPSD package in the FreeBSD ports tree is also reliably up
+to date. Even if your distribution is not on this list, it is quite
+likely GPSD has already been packaged for it.
+
Whatever distribution you are running, the name of the core GPSD
package containing the service daemon is almost certainly "gpsd".
However, many distributions break up GPSD into separate installable