-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2013-11783 2013-10-10 17:26:55 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : geome Product : Fedora EPEL 6 Version : 2.0 Release : 1.el6 URL : http://ftp.nohats.ca/geome Summary : Obtain your geo-location data from Google using NetworkManager Description : geome queries NetworkManager for its wifi information, such as ESSID's and signal strength, and sends it to Google Location to obtain your geographic location. It can return all of the information Google returns, or with the -s flag, only return the latitude/longitude. This last mode is used by the Pidgin OTR nearby friends plugin.
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Use the new Google APIs (gears API shut down) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #921467 - geome fails with "Unexected failure while determing location" - discontinued API ? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921467 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update geome' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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