gpsd and libgps not available in repository

[Andrew Pavlin]

Upon creating a new Raspberry Pi SD card from the 2018-03-13-raspbian-stretch.img, I found that the gpsd and libgps packages (which I had formerly used on jessie image based systems) were not available (attempting to install with "apt-get install gpsd"). Upon using an archived copy of 2017-03-02-raspbian-jessie.img to initialize the SD card, I found that gpsd was supposedly available, but could not find a valid version of libgps, so was unable to use gpsd on newly created jessie cards either.

Is there a reason these packages are no longer available in the repositories? I had successfully used them about 3 months ago to set up Pi's based on the jessie image.

If I have to do custom compiles of the gpsd software, I will, but I would rather use a standardized distribution of all 3rd-party software for the multiple Raspberry Pi systems I need to deploy for this particular project.

[peter green (plugwash)]

hmm, it seems to be there to me.

Did you remember to run apt-get update before trying to install stuff?

Can you please post the complete output of "apt-get install gpsd"?

[Andrew Pavlin (andrewemt)]

I thought I did, since I also did a general 'apt-get upgrade' to get the system current before adding extra software.

Of course, now that I'm logging it, it's working.

-------- Original message --------
From: peter green <email address hidden>
Date: 4/3/18 19:30 (GMT-05:00)
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 1761012] Re: gpsd and libgps not available in repository

hmm, it seems to be there to me.

Did you remember to run apt-get update before trying to install stuff?

Can you please post the complete output of "apt-get install gpsd"?

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Title:
  gpsd and libgps not available in repository

Status in Raspbian:
  New

Bug description:
  Upon creating a new Raspberry Pi SD card from the 2018-03-13-raspbian-
  stretch.img, I found that the gpsd and libgps packages (which I had
  formerly used on jessie image based systems) were not available
  (attempting to install with "apt-get install gpsd"). Upon using an
  archived copy of 2017-03-02-raspbian-jessie.img to initialize the SD
  card, I found that gpsd was supposedly available, but could not find a
  valid version of libgps, so was unable to use gpsd on newly created
  jessie cards either.

  Is there a reason these packages are no longer available in the
  repositories? I had successfully used them about 3 months ago to set
  up Pi's based on the jessie image.

  If I have to do custom compiles of the gpsd software, I will, but I
  would rather use a standardized distribution of all 3rd-party software
  for the multiple Raspberry Pi systems I need to deploy for this
  particular project.

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