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gpsbabel package

  1. Bug #991652
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 991652

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Dmitry Savvateev (savvdm) wrote :

I had the similar problem with OziExplorer under Wine - could not open GPS port on Lubuntu 12.04.

I noticed (after reading this) that /dev/ttyUSB0 belongs to 'dialout' group. Then I simply added my account to this group, and this solved my problem. Thanks for pointing this out!

The udev rule is probably a better solution, but this one works as well.