Iain Holmes has written an application called Gypsy that multiplexes access to a GPS receiver connected to your computer. Debian/Ubuntu packages for Gypsy are available, so I decided I would have a go at building RPMs for Fedora 8. There are two packages available:
Install these using the normal RPM commands. Once you have the packages installed you should be able to follow Iains tutorial describing how to write a simple application that receives position updates from your GPS via Gypsy.
For those interested in what I did, you can get the SPEC file and the init script I created. You’ll notice that I’m building against subversion rather than the latest 0.5 release. This is because Iain has included a check for non-Debian system in the build scripts for the 0.5 release and it seemed simpler to build from subversion than to try and patch the released version. I’ve dropped Iain an email about my work and hopefully he’ll remove the Fedora restriction in the next release.
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